The word is perpetuated in the nickname " The Havercake Lads " for the 33rd Regiment of Foot and also in the term Haversack.
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The Sugar pack was a standardised haversack sized webbing carrier, composed of anaesthetics, drugs, bandages, gauze, swabs and plaster of Paris.
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Many soldiers found the rifle slid off the shoulder unless slung diagonally across the back, where it prevented the wearing of standard field packs and haversacks.
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They might have a wooden canteen, a linen or cotton haversack for food, and a knife or similar sidearm, as well as their musket.
25.
The book argues many of Meinertzhagen's accomplishments were myths including the famous haversack incident, which Garfield claims Meinertzhagen neither came up with nor carried out.
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The cells began arming themselves with shotguns, with each member expected to have one with 10 cartridges as well as blue uniforms, military boots and haversacks.
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Equipment consisted of a wide belt with attached x-suspenders and ammunition pouches, all made of black leather; a canteen, haversack, plus bayonet scabbard.
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During the American Civil War, this cheap but durable material was used to make haversacks and even the famous baggy pants of Confederate Zouaves such as the Louisiana Tigers.
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Thilo Haversack is mentioned in the town records of Braunschweig in 1306; Canellen Haversackes in Neuhaldensleben / Saxony in 1330; and Henslinus Hawersak 1413 in Saaz / Bohemia.
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At the top, a man with a camp stool, vacuum flask, haversack, and other necessities for a long vigil is forming the nucleus of a queue.
