a unique item 1st World War FRONTS de la SOMME (80) & PA - Lot 635

a unique item 1st World War FRONTS de la SOMME (80) & PAS DE CALAIS (62). JEU DE TRANCHEE, JEU DE DAME du POILU. printed paper pasted on gray and black patterned fabric - 35.5 x 29 cm Donated by the OEUVRE du SOLDAT to the FRONT of the TOURING-CLUB de FRANCE. "A NOS AMIS LES COMBATTANT" (TO OUR FRIENDS THE FIGHTERS) - This object bears witness to the waiting and boredom experienced by the soldiers in the trenches, and the wait between 2 attacks when they had to keep busy to avoid monotony and keep their spirits up... RARRISSIME: IN ITS FORTUNE DELIVERY CARTON, with the violet stamped letterhead of l'œuvre du Soldat. UNIQUE: the combatant has recorded on the front and back, in ink pencil, the double conditions of delivery of the object and combat souvenir: on the back: "Souvenir du 14 juillet 1915, offert par le capitaine ECARY, commandant la 3e compagnie du 114e d' infanterie au nom du comité l' œuvre du soldat au front, organisé par le Touring Club de France à VIGNACOURT - SOMME - Appartenant à Joseph HUNOUILH soldat ... "on the front: "in memory of the memorable day of June 18, 1915, northeast of NEUVILLE St VAST, when the trenches and town were infected by German asphyxiating gas at 10:30 a.m., preceding our furious attack".