The brass container with shell fragments which nearly hurt him and plant debris were brought home to England from France by British Army World War I soldier, Charles Frederick [Fred] Hurst, husband of Sarah [Sally] Ann (Young) Hurst. Inscribed on the crown's ring base on the container's cover is Bailleul. Bailleul is a town in northern France 3 kilometers from the Belgian border and 84 kilometers east-south-east of English Channel coastal French town of Calais. During World War I, Bailleul was a vital British rearguard base from 1914 to 1918, housing corps headquarters, air depots, and casualty clearing stations. Heavy fighting occurred here with the Germans taking the town twice but the Allies retaking it after, but destroying 98% of the town. Bailleul was rebuilt after the war. The container was entrusted to Fred's niece, Hephzibah [Betty] Watts; then to her son and Fred's great nephew, David Stephen Watts; and then to his grandson and Fred's great great great nephew, George Joseph Sawyer, IV.