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 Weston, 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 2 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 
