Christmas card showing a Gulf War cartoon

The card shows a cartoon Christmas scene with camels, a desert rat symbol, a tank and a soldier kneeling beside a shell covered in snow and holly, with another soldier saying 'I don't care if it is Christmas - it's a shell not a yule log'.

Inside the card reads 'Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, 40th Field Regiment Royal Artillery The Lowland Gunners'.

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Online ID:	000-000-100-309-C
Image Rights Holder:	National Museums Scotland
Project:	0207: The Thistle at War Project description \| View all records in project
Ref:	National Museums Scotland M.1993.476
Date:	1991
Material:	Paper
Dimensions:	112 mm H x 171 mm W
What:	Card, Christmas
Subject:	Archives and manuscripts
Who:	Royal Artillery, 40th Field Regiment (British land forces)
Where:	Kuwait (place of origin)
Event:	Gulf War
Description:	Royal Artillery, 40th Field Regiment - Christmas card showing a Gulf War cartoon, 1991.
References:	McCorry, Helen (ed.) The thistle at war: an anthology of the Scottish experience of war, in the services and at home. Edinburgh, NMS, 1997
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