Recruit Travel Bag
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 10:59 am
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These confuse people. What are they? Recruit Travel Bags. We need to pin that with documentation though so it's not a guess.
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They didn't have the modern type of basic training back then. Recruits going overseas were given telescope cases to carry their stuff.
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So, either the recruit travel bag or one of the older pre-1910 haversacks replaced the telescope case.
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Which clears the above up.
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The bag at the top is marked inside.
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H.D. Taylor Co., Buffalo, N.Y., travel bags and paulins. It's not a paulin so one man is left standing.
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And they're gone.