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FOUR MEALS A DAY FOR THE
BRITISH TROOPS
With The B.E.F. In France.. MOVEMENTS AND maintenance are the key words of the "Q" branch of the British Expeditionary Force, and dur- ing an informal talk to-day Lt.-Gen. Lindsell, the Quartermaster-General of the Army in France, out- lined to me-the complicated duties imposed upon his department, writes a War Correspondent. Every day nearly 200,000 men have to be fed and 650 tons of petrol sup- plied to keep the mechanical trans- port running.
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The monthly requirements in weight to supply the army in the field with everything it needs amount to third of a ton per man, excluding such Items as heavy railways or bridge equipment.
Food, ammunition and clothing are the main items, but scores of other things complete a list that would be- wilder the largest department store in London or New York.
In addition to all these, large re- serve stores have to be built up at base supply depots to ensure supplies against the risk of air raids on home ports, on bases across the Channel, or on strategic railway centres in France which night momentarily handicap or delay the normal movement of ma- terial from the bases to the troops in the front sector.
BIG EXCESS OF PETROL The initial task of moving the B.E.F. from England to its appointed bases in France, a journey of several hundred miles, was accomplished without a hitch, and one corps alone, so well did communications work, ar- rived at headquarters with no
less than three days' supply of food hand and 500 gallons of petrol excess of its issue.
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"That surplus material," said the Q.M.G. with a chuckle, "I have been trying to lay my hands on ever since!" The Army in the field has already built up no less than 46 days' reserve food for all ranks and immense stock of ammunition, the exact figures of which obviously cannot be given.
The chief desire of the Quarter- master General's department is to give the soldier everything he wants, from gum-boots to cigarettes and from duckboards to sugar in his tea.
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But the force must remain mobile. The Army has spent the last 20 years trying to take the weight off the sol- dier's back and put it into lorries, but there is a limit to this.
At present the lorries attached to an army corps would, if strung out nose to tail, stretch 40 miles.
We have between 20,000 and 30,000 mechanical vehicles, and so perfect was maintenance on the journey from England to the front sectors that the breakdowns averaged less than one- third of one per cent.
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As it is, however, an extra blanket has now been authorised to all ranks. and they are already on trains destin-
ed for all units.
It is interesting to note that in the French Army, by comparison, two men share one blanket.
But mobility must be maintained,. and it is hoped that this important argument will be borne in mind by soldiers' relatives when they receive. letters from the front complaining of the lack of this or that.
The British soldier to-day, as I have been able personally to observe, is bet-
ter fed, better clothed and treated than any other soldier in the world,
He has three or even four good meals a day, Breakfast, a hearty din- ner, tea and, if the quartermaster of his unit knows his business, some- thing tasty for supper in the evening.
He gets fresh meat every day brought up to railheads in refrigera- tor cars, bully beef only every now and then as a change of diet, fish in the shape of sardines or herrings fre- quently, and all the bread, tea, sugar, butter in reason, cheese, jam and ve- getables he can eat.
In short he enjoys a well-balanced diet medically selected which in many
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