Museum of Miltaria and Moth Sanctuary, Durban Membership was also extended to those who had participated in the South African Border War. shell holes have been opened in Ireland, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and a Cyber shellhole for members all over the globe. All who were prepared to keep alive the memories of comradeship and self-sacrifice – the finer virtues that war brings forth – were welcomed and made at home in shell holes as the meeting premises are called with colourful and meaningful names of war-time memories and occasions. Men and women of two world wars, of the Second Anglo Boer War (1899–1902) and even those of former enemy forces streamed into its ranks. movement, under Evenden's vigorous direction and leadership, grew into thousands. Evenden, as the founder of the movement and its guiding inspiration was given the title of Moth O – a position he held until his death." "The concepts of True Comradeship, Mutual Help and Sound Memory were to become the inspiration of a remarkable organisation of ex-front line soldiers, of all ranks, known as M.O.T.H. In the background a steamship passes over the horizon, leaving the forgotten, ghostly form of a veteran forlornly wading through the water."
This is confirmed by the Eastern Province Herald which describes the cartoon as follows: "a bullet- and shrapnel-riddled Allied helmet awash in the ocean. website carries a cartoon captioned Forgetfulness and this led to the founding of the Order.
Around the flames of the candle were six words – True Comradeship – Mutual Help – Sound Memory".
According to the Dictionary, "The cartoon showed a tin helmet surmounted by a burning candle. According to the Dictionary of South African Biography, one night in 1927 after he and the editor of The Natal Mercury, RJ Kingston Russell, had seen a war film, Charles Evenden was persuaded to draw a cartoon on 'remembrance'.
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