Rationing

Originally posted by Tony Smith
One soldier in a battalion history is reported to have dumped the contents of his kit bag overboard and filled it with tea when re-embarking, making a tidy profit upon retuning home.

Ah, the entrepreneurial spirit or aka great opportunist who was appreciated by tea lovers back home I'm sure I can NOT imagine doing daily life, or life at all, life without my coffee!!!

On the contrary, in New Zealand many farms were left with unharvested crops, unshorn sheep and unmilked cows due to a manpower shortage, with a surplus of most produce.. Some battalions had to be prematurely demobbed to provide manpower for home production.

Interesting to draw attention to this part as most people immediately only think of hunger and scarcity during those years. It must have been so awful to see the crops and all go to waste when so desperately needed ... and ouch, those poor unmilked cows ... that engorgement really had to hurt them

K.