‘” ‘” As good as Mother makes?”: As good as Mother makes?”: Food, Family and the Western Food, Family and the Western Front.’ Front.’ Dr Rachel Duffett Dr Rachel Duffett University of Essex University of Essex Everyday Lives in War FWW Everyday Lives in War FWW Centre Centre
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‘”‘”As good as Mother makes?”: As good as Mother makes?”: Food, Family and the Western Food, Family and the Western
Front.’Front.’
Dr Rachel DuffettDr Rachel Duffett
University of EssexUniversity of Essex
Everyday Lives in War FWW Everyday Lives in War FWW CentreCentre
‘Have heard a good deal about German atrocities, but in some respects the British are quite as bad and cruel, for weeks together we have not had a second vegetable, often none at all…’
‘I have not seen any dead. I have done worse. In the dank air I have perceived it, and in the darkness, felt… No Man’s Land under snow is like the face of the moon chaotic, crater-ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.’
Wilfred Owen to his mother, 19 January 1917
‘I do not like writing here nothing to talk about and nobody to see only fresh green fields.’
George Stopher to his mother, 20 May 1916George Stopher to his mother, 20 May 1916
Pass the meat and sardines through mincerPass the meat and sardines through mincer
twice, and add pepper. Press well down into twice, and add pepper. Press well down into
a kettle lid, smooth over and pour a little a kettle lid, smooth over and pour a little
melted fat over the top to give a face.melted fat over the top to give a face.
‘It was simply a wild scramble, such as respectable people could not imagine, and a very rough introduction to army life. It was no use waiting til the scramble had subsided. That only meant we should get nothing, so, like hundreds of others had to, I scrambled for food.’
John Jackson, Private 12768: Memoir of a Tommy (Stroud, 2005), p. 17.
Image from The Sphere, caption reads: "The Christmas mail for the fronthas been larger than ever this year, and the Post Office has been dispatching parcels to the soldiers at the rate of a quarter of a million a day. The picture shows a few of them arriving at their destination at the front."