Twenty-first birthday. [WWI]

>Parcels sent to soldiers who had been killed were often opened and their contents devoured, smoked or worn – although one infantry section could not bring itself to eat a dead comrade’s twenty-first birthday cake sent out by his mother, and gave it to the less fastidious members of another platoon. __________________________ **Source:** Holmes, Richard. "Earth and Wire." *Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918*. London: HarperCollins, 2004. 325. Print.