CELEBRATORY MEAL MENU

THE FIRST W RLD WAR IN OBJECTS

NO.31

The menu produced for the meal enjoyed by the players of the Seaforth Highlanders football team on 14 February 1918 and Private George Bentley, on the right, pictured with his brother Elgy. (BOTH COURTESY OF MATTHEW BENTLEY VIA EUROPEANA 1914-1918)

DESPITE THE challenges that food shortages, increasing prices and rationing created for the wartime chef, both on the Home Front and overseas, special events frequently provided the ideal opportunity for a celebratory meal – and the menus produced for such occasions often became treasured mementoes. It is, therefore, perhaps unsurprising that the menu seen here, relating to a dinner held at the Spa Hotel in Ripon for the Seaforth Highlanders football team has survived for nearly a century. It was initially kept by one of the players, George Eric Bentley.

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