Show TOMMYS JAM EAR BAR TO SCURVY its use in british army Is purely for the health of the soldiers london the call for contributions of jam which is made by certain british war var relief societies backed by the press may lead strangers to believe that thomas atkins Is the most pampered of fighting men but this Is not true since the hard egyptian campaign of 1884 proved that jam Is not a luxury but a necessary preventive of scurvy millions of pounds of jam were consumed by the british troops in the boer war and the army in france has been kept well supplied with it in the present campaign |