Ashtray
Collection of Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, 9.72.8.1
brass, 4.0 x 8.9 x 9.6 cm, First World War
John Boyling was living in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan when he enlisted in December 1915. Corporal Boyling found this lighter in Belgium at the end of the First World War and donated it and the officer’s cap ashtray to the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery in 1972.