Rations Collection

Bread to German prisoners, Champagne, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Bread to German prisoners, Champagne, between c1915 and c1920.

Giving Bread to British prisoners, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Giving Bread to British prisoners, between 1914 and c1915.

Wynsdorf (Zossen), French prisoners receiving cabbages, 7 Jan 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Wynsdorf (Zossen), French prisoners receiving cabbages, 7 Jan 1915 (date created or published later). French prisoners at Zossen prisoner of war camp, Wu¨nsdorf, Zossen, Germany

Prisoners getting soup, Zossen, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Prisoners getting soup, Zossen, between 1914 and c1915. Prisoners with soup bowls at Zossen prisoner of war camp, Wu¨nsdorf, Zossen, Germany, during World War I.

German women after second grade meat, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
German women after second grade meat, 1914. German women in line for meat during the beginning of World War I.

The 70th Bengal Native Infantry messing, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The 70th Bengal Native Infantry messing, 1858. Indian soldiers in China. A scene which...may be witnessed daily down at the beach

The 70th Bengal Native Infantry drawing rations at the Commissariat Stores, Canton, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The 70th Bengal Native Infantry drawing rations at the Commissariat Stores, Canton, 1858. Indian soldiers in China. The Bengalese drawing their rations make a rather good subject for the picturesque;

Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Au refectoire: les volontaires du bataillon feminin, designe... 1917 Creator: Unknown
Les Soubresauts de la Russie; Au refectoire: les volontaires du bataillon feminin, designe aussi sous le norm de , puisent le gruau a meme la marmite commune; la viande est posee sur la table nue

Life in the trenches in Champagne; Calm: "le pinard", 1917. Creator: Unknown
Life in the trenches in Champagne; Calm: "le pinard", 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

La Maniere de Petain; Le commandant en chef dans les cantonnements, 1917. Creator: Unknown
La Maniere de Petain; Le commandant en chef dans les cantonnements, 1917. First World War:.Petain, commander-in-chief of the cantonments

Dining under difficulties - from a sketch by our special artist in China, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Dining under difficulties - from a sketch by our special artist in China, 1860. British forces in the Far East. From "Illustrated London News", 1860

American Prison Life, Blackwell's Island, New York: Dinner-Time, 1876. Creator: Unknown
American Prison Life, Blackwell's Island, New York: Dinner-Time, 1876....the inmates, who are here treated with compulsory hospitality

Farm Security Administration (FSA) distributing station, Bakersfield, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The commodities on the counter represent two weeks allotment for four people. Photograph made in Farm Security Administration (FSA)

Bully beef can opener, 1914-1918. Creator: Unknown
Bully beef or corned beef is meat made from minced salt-cured brisket of beef in gelatin. The word bully possibly comes from the French " bouilli" (boiled)

Home, Sweet Home, c. 1863. Creator: Winslow Homer
Home, Sweet Home, c. 1863

Issued Barley Instead of Wheat [first version] (John Beaver, Roman Military Punishments, 1725), after 1725

Half Rations, from The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome, 1815. 1815
Half Rations, from " The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome", 1815

Morris Commercial salvage truck, Liverpool World War 2. Creator: Unknown
Morris Commercial salvage truck, Liverpool World War 2

The Polar Partys Sledging Ration (Pemmican, biscuits, butter, cocoa, sugar and tea), 1911, (1913). Sledging ration for one man for one day

Vegetables for market, 1941. Artist: Cecil Beaton
Vegetables for market, 1941. From Air of Glory, by Cecil Beaton. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

The Soldier and his Rations: A photograph taken at one of the British camps in France, 1914. From The Manchester Guardian History of the War - 1914, Vol. I.. [John Heywood Ltd, London, 1914]

Part of Canadas gift of flour of the relief of war distress in England, 1915. From The Manchester Guardian History of the War Vol. III - 1915.. [John Heywood Ltd, London, 1915]

A store of war bread for the German troops, 1915. From The Manchester Guardian History of the War Vol. III - 1915.. [John Heywood Ltd, London, 1915]

An inspector visiting a Berlin bakery, 1915. An inspector checking to see that the Government limitation on the use of flour is being observed. From The Manchester Guardian History of the War Vol

Clara Barton, (born 1830), 1920s
Clara Barton, born in 1830 was President of the American Red Cross. She came to Cuba in 1898 to distribute rations. She died in 1912

Serving out a days fresh meat ration on board HMS Talbot, 1896. Artist: WM Crockett
Serving out a days fresh meat ration on board HMS Talbot, 1896. The Talbot was a cruiser that entered service in September 1896. A print from The Navy and Army Illustrated, 30th October 1896

German troops stopping for midday rations on the way to Brussels, First World War, 1914. Illustration from The Great War by HW Wilson, Vol I, (London, 1914)

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