A report from Kieff states that a detachment of British volunteers from the Hon and Baku districts passed through Kieff on their way to Archangel. They had decided to enlist owing to the raids on the British coast. The "caisson," of which mention is so frequently made in war despatches, is the wheeled chest in which carried supplementary supplies of shells for field guns. Each holds about 150 shells, and their capture is a welcome event—when it is the enemy’s caissons which have been taken.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 156, 6 March 1915, Page 7
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85Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 156, 6 March 1915, Page 7
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