A man from Fareham in Hampshire was given the box of cigarettes when he was in hospital in Wei Wie, in China, during the Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900. Mr George Holden told the local newspaper: "I was a cook in a ship carrying troops to China. While we were there I was taken ill with fever and spent 31 days in hospital. A nurse gave me them and I have kept them ever since."
Packet of cigarettes and paper clipping
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