Mathias97 Posted 9 January , 2016 Share Posted 9 January , 2016 Hi Whilst reading in the War Diary of the 8th York and Lanc, I saw this: ''Supplied carrying pouches? for rat??ns? SA? Boms'' To be honest, I can't make it out, so I would be pleased if any member could help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss002d6252 Posted 9 January , 2016 Share Posted 9 January , 2016 "Rations, Small Arms Ammunition (SAA) , Bombs etc" Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 9 January , 2016 Share Posted 9 January , 2016 Pouches for rations, small arms ammo and bombs etc Edit Beaten to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathias97 Posted 9 January , 2016 Author Share Posted 9 January , 2016 Thanks guys for the quick responses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Henschke Posted 9 January , 2016 Share Posted 9 January , 2016 supplied carrying parties for rations... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loader Posted 9 January , 2016 Share Posted 9 January , 2016 I read it as "parties". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss002d6252 Posted 9 January , 2016 Share Posted 9 January , 2016 I read it as parties as well. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 10 January , 2016 Share Posted 10 January , 2016 Parties. Battalions, when out of the line, would regularly provide the carrying parties to take stuff to the front - in this case they were taking rations, small arms ammunition and grenades (bombs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loader Posted 10 January , 2016 Share Posted 10 January , 2016 Have read in some accounts by soldiers that they worked harder when out of the lines "resting" than when in the front trenches! The many carrying parties they were called upon to provide were truly hard & tiring. They were carrying as said ammo, grenades, rations, water, wire rolls, heavy stuff for a tired man to haul & under fire too. Not much resting when on rest out of the line! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Burgess Posted 4 July , 2020 Share Posted 4 July , 2020 I'm a bit late to the party, but... "... about 300 prisoners. During the morning & afternoon the Batt [ie: battalion] supplied carrying parties for Rations SAA [ie: small-arms ammunition] Bombs [ie: hand grenades, universally known at this period a sbombs or Mills bombs, and possibly including rifle grenades], etc to the front line NE of MARTINPUICH. Our casualties..." The communication trenches started as much as two-and-a-half to three miles behind the front line trenches and every round of ammunition for rifles, machine guns and trench mortars, every grenade, every bite of food and drop of water, every inch of barbed wire, every wiring stake, duckboard, sandbag, sheet of corrugated tin, length of timber for shoring up a dugout or revetting a trench wall - in short every single item needed in the trenches - had to be carried by hand along the winding, zig-zagging, traversed, muddy trenches to the front line. Over the four years of the war this amounted to millions of tons of gear, all moved on "shanks' pony". The vast majority of this work was done by the battalions "resting" between their stints in the firing line, in addition to all the other labour and training they had to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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