World War I trenches - dining & baking

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Soldiers had a rough time in the trenches, and civilians at home were asked to...
"FEED A FIGHTER Eat only what you need – Waste nothing – That he and his family may have enough" 1918.

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Baking bread for the fighters in the trenches. 1919

Making Bread for British Troops, Camp Scene, France.

Making Bread for British Troops. back of card. Photographed during war, published 1923

"...The long sticks with shovel-like ends which some of these men hold are the tools that they use to draw the pans of bread from the oven-like Aldershot ovens used by the British army for baking. This oven is built on the plan of an ordinary bean-hole. It resembles a small tunnel, blocked at one end. A roaring fire is built inside, the coals raked aside, and the bread put in and the oven sealed up. …"

The full poster for first picture "Feed a Fighter" 1918

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