10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MESS TIN»
Discover the use of
mess tin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mess tin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Merdeka: Malaya 1957. a Country Gains Freedom, But Deep in ...
Tom pierced each tin in two places and put them both into his water-filled mess
tin, which he carefully placed over his cooker. Alick poured the rice into the larger
of his two mess tins, and added some water and salt tablets. He lit his cooker and
...
2
The Silent Escape: Three Thousand Days in Romanian Prisons
A good smile and he continues to smile as he hands me a mess tin and a piece
of bread. A real mess tin. Deep, full. Pieces of meat, prunes, some sauce. Really
full. For me? He has surely gotten the wrong cell. I am afraid of losing this mess ...
3
The Sumatra Railroad: Final Destination Pakan Baroe, 1943-1945
It certainly is a relic, the most famous of mess tins: 'Oliemans's mess tin'. It tells a
story about the adven— tures of a group of 438 prisoners of war during forced
labour, first in Atjeh, North Sumatra, and later on the Pakan Baroe railway. Marine
...
4
Survival: The Story of a Sixteen-year-old Jewish Boy
Many prisoners of Blechhammer had a mess tin in their possession in which they
could hide food leftovers and small goods. It was a long, cylindrical piece of zinc
with a lid and a cord for carrying it over a shoulder. Incidentally, we had, not ...
Was going to borrow someone's mess-tin when finished and warm it up. but
decided 1 could not wait for that. Sat by fire and had hot cup of tea. At about 2
p.m. six of us were detailed to unload a barge of timber. Heavy work, but have
long final ...
6
The Cadet Sergeant Major: A Novel about Army Cadets in North ...
He poured water into a mess tin, then struck a match and lit the half block of
hexamine in the stove. It flared into flame and Graham smiled. He knew he did
this every time because the smell of hexamine conjured upthoughts of food and
warm ...
7
Mercer Plays: 1: Where the Difference;Case for ...
Five in the morning. The sun rising over the Vistula. I went into the lavatory. Saw
this battered tin, with his shaving soap and brush in it. Took it back into the living
room. (Pause) What's this, Zbyshek? (Pause) It's an old mess tin, he said. A mess
...
Jim opened his wooden case and took out his mess tin. He walked down the
bank between the resting women and their exhausted children. Squatting on the
narrow beach, he carefully filled his mess tin with the surface water, hoping that
the ...
They'll eat everything that's left! Finally, I find my pack, but as I am unhooking my
mess tin someone jumps onto my bed with his dirty boots, and knocks everything
to the floor. My mess tin rolls under the next bed, and when I dive to retrieve it, ...
10
Fearsome Battle: With the Canadian Army in World War II Europe
Meat and vegetable stew filled one mess tin and stewed tea the other. A thick
slab of fresh-baked bread smeared with scrounged Normandy butter lay on the
wire U-shaped handle of the tea-filled mess tin. Ian used his fork, moving it
through ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MESS TIN»
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mess tin is used in the context of the following news items.
Reflections of Ross-shire
WRITING from the trenches, with a mess tin for a desk, a 14th Seaforth tells a tale of plum duff. “A few days ago a young lady sent to one of her ... «Ross-Shire Journal, Jul 15»
Napoleonic war veteran image a way into rabbit hole of history
He would have died, had not the mess tin he kept under his hat taken the worst of the blow. He was left for dead on the battlefield, where the ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
Louis de Bernieres: Choose your holiday book carefully
We trudged with our lumpy rucksacks in intolerable heat and ate cans of petits pois warmed up with butter in a mess tin and drank red wine ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
Excerpt: In Search of Freedom
“We were given orders to queue up, given a mess tin, mind you, not a cup! Food was a dosa and the tea had bits of jaggery, as no sugar was ... «Livemint, Jun 15»
York veterans recall storming the Normandy beaches on D-Day
Dennis Haydock was a bit more protected from stray rounds because he landed in Normandy on board a Sherman Tank; a mess tin on wheels ... «The Press, York, Jun 15»
David Blatt and Israeli cynicism
We all ate from the same mess tin during basic training. We have no king, nobility or aristocracy. We are all exposed to the same verbal fire from ... «Haaretz, May 15»
Charleswood war vet to share memories of D-Day
Some of the things he's held onto over the years are his cup and mess tin, and his old army boots. "I told one little girl in a classroom, 'You ... «Winnipeg Free Press, May 15»
Kenya expects 100000 at beatification of WWI-era nun
... themselves and was happy to return with the mess tin full and feed those who had not the strength to feed themselves,” the biography said. «CatholicPhilly.com, May 15»
A home among the waves - inside No Man's Fort
Then it was down to the mess hall for an elaborate four-course meal, partly served incongruously in a mess tin. There was butter-poached ... «Portsmouth News, May 15»
130-year-old Melbourne flag manufacturer celebrates its historical …
In World War I, the company produced 354,581 items for the Australian armed forces as well as 200,000 mess tin covers for the British Army ... «SmartCompany.com.au, Apr 15»
