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Princess Mary The paper’s columnist, Anthony Wood, concluded that not every box contained the same. He wrote: “When you think about it, the operation was on such a scale there was bound to be some variation. “Sending off seasonal gifts to every man and woman on active service must have been a colossal undertaking and involved more than one manufacturer. “It wasn’t a matter of placing an order with the shop round the corner. It involved hundreds of thousands of tins.” One reader who responded to the article was 16-year-old Frances Drake, of Banbury Road, Kidlington. Her father had made a display cabinet for items from his father’s tin. They included a collapsible pipe, an ounce of tobacco and 20 cigarettes. He had added pictures of the King, Queen and Princess.