Yes, the first character is the first half of kansou. Took me a while to see it - it's kind of hard to read in the photo, plus it's in an old style calligraphy (unsurprisingly). And I was trying to think of characters that could mean 'fresh' rather than 'dried'. Which if I'd thought a little more about what a soldier was likely to be carrying...doh.
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