SOLDIERS’ LUNCHES

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 87, 6 January 1933, Page 10

SOLDIERS’ LUNCHES

(Reuter —Special to “Dominion.”) No longer will the travelling Tommy have to wait until he reaches the end of his train journey in order to satisfy his hunger and thirst. The War Office has decided that soldiers aue to have “luncheon baskets” when on um railway. A scheme to give these facilities to troops going, home on leave, or going overseas, has been approved by the Movements and Quartering staff of the Department of the Quarte 1 - Master-General to the Forces. i Up to the present soldiers travelling to or from ports have had to spend ■ many hours in a train crowded with I troops without being able to have any refreshments except what little could be carried in their water-bottles ami haversacks.

Men will obtain their refreshnients by meaiis of food tickets of varying value which will be issued to them. Some of these tickets will amount to 2s. 3d. —others only to' sixpence, it will, of course, depend on the length of the journey, and the 'time of day. The sixpenny meal will be composed of bread and butter, a meat sandwich, and tea or coffee. On the other hand, the heaviest meal which the soldiers will be able to get is to consist of two meat sandwiches or meat pies, bread and butter, one ounce and a half of cheese, and a cup of tea or coffee.