Rum
Sir, —In today’s issue, page 19, I read: “. . . the treacly mugful that has helped the soldier go over the top. . . .”
First. Army rum was more mobile than water; second, in an experience from November, 1916, to the end of the war I never heard of troops getting a rum issue just before going over the top; third, a mugful would quickly knock a man down completely “blotto.”—Yours, etc., 1/C.R. February 15. 1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30368, 18 February 1964, Page 3
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