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Crimean War: A.B. Soyer's kitchen camp. Wood engraving, 1855.

Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: Pensioners filing past the serving tables in the west kitchen, vats and ranges against the walls. Wood engraving by M. Jackson.

Boer War: hospital cooks preparing food in the open air. Halftone, c.1900.

Crimean War: A.B. Soyer's Barrack Hospital kitchens in Scutari. Wood engraving.

Crimean War: Barrack Hospital kitchen, Scutari, Turkey. Wood engraving by Dalziel Bros after H.G. Hine.

La cuisine rationnée : nourrir un peuple et une armée, 1914-1918 / Marcelle Cinq-Mars.

Manual of military cooking / prepared at the Army School of Cookery.

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Crimean War: Barrack Hospital kitchen, Scutari, Turkey. Wood engraving by Dalziel Bros after H.G. Hine.

Boer War: hospital cooks preparing food in the open air. Halftone, c.1900.

La cuisine rationnée : nourrir un peuple et une armée, 1914-1918 / Marcelle Cinq-Mars.

Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: Pensioners filing past the serving tables in the west kitchen, vats and ranges against the walls. Wood engraving by M. Jackson.

Manual of military cooking / prepared at the Army School of Cookery.