| FEEDING THE TROOPS British Army Catering Corps at work in field kitchen and demonstrating Tommy stove. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 7685 | |
| Catalog #: | 527214 | |
| Clip Number: | 527214-2 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 838 A | |
| Timecode: | 01:31:25 - 01:35:00 | |
| Location: | Europe | |
| Year Shot: | 1944 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DOMESTIC LIFE: Meals & Cooking LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Misc WORLD WAR TWO, MILITARY: Meals | |
| Description: | Various shots of British Army Catering Corps preparing food in an outdoor camp kitchen (field kitchen). Soldiers are seen building a brick stove. Catering staff unload big tins of food from a truck. C/U of a soldier holding a small tin with the words 'The 24 Hour Ration' on it. He takes out the contents - they are all wrapped in paper. A soldier finds a clearing in the countryside and cooks field rations on an individual Tommy stove. He pours water in his mess tin and puts it on the stove. He then takes out little cubes from another tin (the 24 hour rations!). He shows the camera one cube labelled 'Tea' then crumbles it into the water on the stove. He eats and drinks tea from the tin. | |
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