WW1 - Whats happening here?

[markinbelfast]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourp...r/A755354.shtml

[Desmond7]

Medal card of Watt, Charles G

Corps: Royal Field Artillery

Regiment No: 640230

Rank: Driver...

1914-1920 WO 372/21

Medal card of Watt, Charles G

Corps: Royal Engineers

Regiment No: 191466

Rank: Sapper

1914-1920 WO 372/21

Medal card of Watt, Charles G

Corps: Highland Light Infantry

Regiment No: 3547

Rank: Private

[joseph]

Making Jam tin bombs?

Charles

[PhilB]

Brewing up? Looks like a platoon size teabag in the man`s hand! Phil B

[Doug Johnson]

Really I have no idea but;

It is summer so if it is 1918, they are still very much prisoners

Since they are prisoners, whatever they are doing is legit.

The cocoa tin could mean several things and not necessarily anything to do with cocoa.

It more than likely held cocoa when originally sent but the following postcard to Gregorie Klinkenberg (really!) sent in 1915 from occupied Belgium refers to a cocoa tin, albeit sans cocoa! It was sent as a good tin for use as a drinking mug!

If the devices held by others are giant tea bags then they may not point to a giant brew up as tea leaves were used numerous times over. I suspect that towards the end of their useful life you would need a big tea bag just to brew one cup! A good story (and probably not much else) from Gustrow is that a German bought tea leaves from the prisoners which, unknown to him, had already used several times. These were shown to another German and they agreed they were just about useless and commented that it showed just how bad things had got in England!

Doug