DMD Contract with Griffith and McNaughton, 1918

As WWI stretched on, it became apparent that soldiers in the frontline trenches of France desperately needed blankets to ward of freezing temperatures, and dry, well-made socks to prevent the onset of trench foot or gangrene.  Griffith and McNaughton provided the Allied troops with military issued items between 1916 and 1918 through contracts with both the Department of Militia and Defence, and the War Department of the United States Military. This contract, in three parts was for 75,000 pairs of socks and 16,000 blankets.