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Read the four sources below and then answer the questions at the bottom of the page.

Please read all of the sources first or you will not properly answer the questions.

British soldiers having some 'grub' in the trenches during WWI.

Source 1:
What do our soldiers eat? The very best and most substantial food and plenty of it. The first item is meat (fresh or frozen). Each soldier is entitled to one pound a day. In addition to this meat the soldier is given four ounces of bacon, usually for breakfast. Soldiers are also given fish, too much of it, sausages from government owned factories and pork and beans are given as a supplement to the meat rations. Bread, is perhaps, next in importance. Of this a soldier receives one pound. The bread is made in bakeries behind the lines. These bakeries turn out 220,000 two-pound loaves a day, made from Canadian flour of the same quality as in prewar days. Some other food items that a Canadian soldier will receive are; ten ounces of rice, two ounces of butter served three times a week, three ounces of jam, an ounce of coffee tea or coffee, two ounces of cheese, two ounces of oatmeal three times a week, three ounces of sugar, an ounce of milk once a week, an ounce of pickles three times a week, two ounces of potatoes, eight ounces of fresh vegetables when obtainable or at least two ounces of dried vegetables. Canada at War Thrift Book, 1918.

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Source 2:
The food was monotonous and barely adequate. It consisted of a biscuit that had to be soaked in water for ten minutes before it could be eaten, tinned meat that was more often then not tainted or spoiled when it was opened. There were rarely any vegetables given or any other food which was suggested that we would get once we were here. No attempts at all were made to achieve a diet that would give strength to the body. The cookhouse at the camp had one of our bread biscuits nailed to the door and carved into was a saying, A square meal. H.F. Wood, Vimy!, p. 47.

The complete efficiency of the men is largely because of the excellent quality of their food. The Canadian army is, in fact, healthier than any other army that has ever faced war. Typhoid and scurvy are almost unknown. The amazing record of health for the troops is because of all of the sanitary precautions that have been taken. One of the most remarkable of these is the system of hot baths and the sterilising of clothing. Bathing Questions: establishments have been put up in various parts of the battle ground. Day after day, successive companies of 1) Write baths three (3) sentences strip to the men have hotat leastin the buildings. Theyfrom each source the wallow 4) that summarises the skin, and while (1,2,3 and in huge baths of hot water, sources opinion on 200 degrees the soldiers their clothing is treated with the quality of of heat, which diets during World destroys all of the vermin. War I. M. Atiken, Canadasource determine who could have 2) For each in Flanders, p. 19. possibly written that source. Your choices are; 1) A General; 2) A government official; or 3) a Canadian Soldier. You must provide a three A Canadian Food Board propaganda supports your (3) sentence statement that poster from WWI. This poster encouraged Canadians to selection. conserve food so we could give more of it to the troops in Europe.the position of prove effective? 3) How would Did this poster the author in the Canadian Army or Government affect what was written or said about the quality of food given to troops during World War I?

Source 3:
Food in the trenches was always scarce; a days ration for a soldier consisted of a tin of bully beef (beef jerky), a tin can of hot water or tea if they were lucky to receive some and possibly if they were even more lucky a sickly sweet substance called plum and apple jam. That to the troops tasted like it was made from rotten turnips and rhubarb. L. M. Frost, Fighting Men, pg. 24.

4) What do you think? Did the soldiers have an


adequate or sufficient diet during World War I? Explain your answer by providing supporting arguments from your previous answers.

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