136 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 



They have been presented to the Museum by the Woman's Liberty 

 Loan Committee of New England. 



The collection of uniforms of the type worn by American women 

 during the war, which is being assembled in the Museum by the 

 National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, has been in- 

 creased by representatives of the following organizations : 



Chief yeoman (F), United States Naval Reserve Force; yeoman 

 (F) winter uniform; yeoman (F) summer uniform; National League 

 for Women's Service, first lieutenant, Junior Corps; League of 

 Catholic Women, canteen service; Woman's Land Army of Hamil- 

 ton County, Ohio, under auspices of Cincinnati Garden Club; Na- 

 tional Land Army of Ohio, canteen uniform ; War Camp Com- 

 munity Service; contract surgeon. United States Army; Salvation 

 Army; United States Army nurse; American Fund for French 

 Wounded; Knights of Columbus; Emergency Fleet Corporation, 

 United States Shipping Board; Navy Nurse Corps, blue and white 

 hospital uniforms; and Young Women's Christian Association. 



To the commemorative section of the war collections was added 

 a collection of British and Canadian uniforms worn during the war 

 by Lieut. Louis Bennett of the 40th Squadron, Royal Air Force, 

 who was killed in action in France August 24, 1918. These are 

 accompanied by a number of miscellaneous documents and photo- 

 graphs relative to the service of Lieutenant Bennett. The collec- 

 tion was presented to the Museum by Lieutenant Bennett's mother, 

 Mrs. Louis Bennett, of AVeston, W. Va. 



A touching reminder of the conflict reaching the Museum during 

 the past year is the body of the carrier pigeon Cher Ami received 

 from the United States Signal Corps and mounted by the Museum 

 taxidermist. This pigeon was one of 600 birds which were donated 

 by the pigeon fanciers of Great Britain for use in France during 

 the World War. Trained by American pigeoneers and flown from 

 American lofts, 1917-18, Cher Ami returned to his loft with a 

 message dangling from the ligaments of a leg cut off by rifle or 

 shell shot. He was also shot through the breast and died from 

 the effects of this wound June 13, 1919. 



The foreign material relating to the World War has been In- 

 creased by a collection of French military objects presented to the 

 Museum by the French Government. This collection includes a 

 steel listening post, a steel cupola with gun, a catapult, a Brandt 

 cannon, a number of hand and rifle grenades, several swords and 

 bayonets, signal rockets, a number of pieces of armor and mis- 

 cellaneous relics. From the Czecho-Slovak Army in Russia, artillery 

 section, with headquarters at Vladivostok, was received a Russian 

 3-inch field-gun, model of 1903, manufactured at Perm, which was 

 originally mounted upon a wheeled carriage but later removed 



