ration-bag

Updated: May 14, 2025

"Weak as a rat can't eat nothink, PRACtically... nothink; but see here, John," he seldom called me John "if I do slip off the map, an' I feel PRACtically done for this time if I SHOULD you see that ration-bag" he pointed to a little white bag bulging and tied up and knotted. "Yes?"

John Hargrave - At Suvla Bay : Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war.

A sunny morning and the prospect of a holiday would make us exuberantly cheerful and some of us would even assert that the army was not so bad after all. A slight deficiency in the rations would arouse fierce indignation and mutinous utterances. An extra pot of jam in the tent ration-bag would fill us with the spirit of loyalty and patriotism.

F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Voigt - Combed Out

I gave him just the same sort of instructions about my notes and sketches as he had given me about his little ration-bag. "Get 'em back to England if you can," I said; "you're the man I'd soonest trust here." If Hawk hadn't looked after me and made me eat, I don't believe I should have lived.

John Hargrave - At Suvla Bay : Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war.