{"id":111626,"date":"2017-11-28T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:12:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:12:41","slug":"tea-soldier-drink-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/tea-soldier-drink-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea, the Soldier's Drink"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sometimes even– or especially– in the midst of war, you just need a cup of tea. (Especially when you’re British…. so much so, in fact, that this will be a two-parter, thanks to the Imperial War Museum!).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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A solider drinking a tea next to a Red Cross mobile tea wagon, Calcutta, 1944. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Members of a parachute battalion have a well-earned cup of tea after a three day fight back to their own lines, Normandy, 1944 Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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British troops have tea in Belgium, 1917. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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British and Egyptian convalescent soldiers at a tea held by the wife of the British ambassador to Egypt, WW2. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Soldiers with tea and cakes served by a front-line Salvation Army van, Italy, 1943. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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RAF men have tea in a newly created club in Algiers, c. 1940. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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A Canadian captain has a cup of tea as he recounts his experiences in the failed Dieppe raid after disembarking in Portsmouth, England, 1942. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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A Royal Engineer holding a cup of tea and a pie smiles in front of a WVS tea car, London, 1941. Source<\/a><\/div>\n

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High-ranking officers take a tea break to discuss British strategy, Rangoon, Burma, c 1945. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Royal Field Artillerymen with tea and hot rum during the Battle of the Lys, WWI. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Canadian troops recieving their tea ration at the field kitchen, Belgium, 1916. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Canadian airmen line up for food and tea on a North African airfield, 1943. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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A mobile tea canteen at the front in North Africa, 1942. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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A woman hands out tea to soldiers (and their pet monkey) at a town in France, 1940. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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A First Aid Nursing Yeomanry woman feeds tea and sandwiches to evacuated soldiers on a train, London, 1940 (the hands-ful soldier is wearing a captured German helmet). Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Waitresses serve RAF men tea and things in a NAAFI canteen, England, 1941. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Officers being served tea in a garden in North Africa, possibility Tunisia, 1942. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Troops get mugs of tea while waiting to embark on ships to Sicily, Egypt, 1943. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Tea served to German prisoners, France, 1944. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Members of the ATS have tea in London, 1945. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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Wrens host a tea party for wounded soldiers, Alexandria, Egypt, WW2. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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RAF officers take tea in their mess in a French airfield, 1939-40. Source<\/a><\/div>\n
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A Scottish soldier rests with a cigarette and cup of tea on a jungle patrol, Malaysia, 1948-50. Source<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes even– or especially– in the midst of war, you just need a cup of tea. (Especially when you’re British…. so much so, in fact, that this will be a two-parter, thanks to the Imperial War Museum!). \u00a9 IWM (IB 1882) A solider drinking a tea next to a Red Cross mobile tea wagon, Calcutta, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t