Pack of Camel cigarettes, 1944 (c)

Cigarette ration from a US Army K-Ration Breakfast Unit, World War Two, Far East (1941-1945). Camel branded pack of four 'Turkish & Domestic Blend Cigarettes', manufactured by R J Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States.

K-Rations were composed of chopped ham and eggs, coffee, biscuits, cigarettes, a fruit bar, chewing gum, water purification tablets and toilet paper. They were American in origin and designed for mobile troops such as paratroops, and to be used for a short duration. Major General Orde Wingate selected them for the second Chindit expedition, Operation THURSDAY, during the campaign in Burma.

From the Burma Memorial Collection of Major James Allan.