General Chat

Thanks.

I wonder who reported it for posterity though?

Lol. No it is interesting, thank you.

Didn't know that either.

I didn't know that Stephen, how awful, what a way to treat their families.

I could not have imagined the amount of food that was shifted in just two days. They have fresh vegetables etc delivered, when it arrives the rations people have to work through the night unloading it all.

That was followed by an interview with a very well spoken elderly (she must be about 90) lady who was at Uxbridge and then at Blexley Park. She was so knowledgeable and her memory was fantastic as she told stories about meeting Churchill and she giggled when she told us one night when she was at Uxbridge (where they plotted the Battle of Britain flights) there was a land mine dropped so they were evacuated so the next morning theyw ere all at work i8n their silk PJs and she said it was surprising how many officers found it necessary to visit the ops room that day.

Yes I agree with you there Ann. Do they not say that an army marches on it's stomach.
I also feel that during that last war, there were many groups that received little or no recognition for the part they played in the theatre of war. It is only now that, for instance, we are seeing recognition being afforded to the Land Army.
Although my father was in the Royal Navy, very little is made of the part that the Merchant Navy played, running the gauntlet of the U Boats out in the Atlantic, bringing in food and supplies from America, as a for instance.
And there must be many,many more.
We should remember them all.
Julia in Derbyshire

Just watching a bit of the remembrance day week TV.

The Royal Logistics core.

Can you imagine working in a kitchen that is 48 degrees? making chips?

At each meal they feed 5000 people. (breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper.

I can't remember any of the statistics now but there was a huge stack of bags of potatoes that would last 2 days and would be prepped by one man (who hates peeling potatoes?)

The meals all looked very good I have to say.