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Suds & Soldiers:

Beer and World War I, 1914-1919

By: Doran Cart, Senior Curator, National WWI Museum and Memorial
B y the time of World War I, which start- and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.

ed in 1914, beer was already an ancient
beverage made and consumed by most
the nations involved in the war. In light Many of the early war photographs show soldiers,
especially German, posing for their gone-to-war
of the long history already written about beer, this photographs with beer mugs in hand and often
article will center on the personal, official and peri- sitting on beer kegs. Ceramic beer tankards were
od-printed references of beer during World War I illustrated with scenes of soldiers’ service so they
held in the archives of the National WWI Museum could be reminded of what they had gone through

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