Feeding Tommy by Andrew Robertshaw

Author:Andrew Robertshaw
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752492841
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

Even a private could receive a parcel from home or do some extra shopping, and when behind the lines, Beatson comments that: ‘It was against the grain to do 2½ hours drill but our “al fresco” dinner made up for it. Melton Mowbray pie, pineapple, cake, dates and chocolate sitting on a blanket in the sun’.100 One wonders whether the less fortunate members of the unit received the benefits of the ‘no show’ by some of the men for whom rations had been prepared by the cooks?

Hospitals and convalescent camps in Britain and closer to the front had their own ration scales. These were intended to help the recovery of the wounded without overfeeding, whilst at the same time appealing to the appetite of men confined to a hospital ward or camp. Olive Dent, a VAD (Volunteer Aid Detachment) working in hospitals in France, described the cooking arrangements:

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