G'day Norton. Thanks for your comments. In response to your queries, firstly, “Marinated green bean salad and dill pickles”. I've also never seen this in A or B ration scales, so I have to presume that it was a tongue in cheek comment by the Oz ration clerk who wrote the piece for the newsletter. Ho...

One of my current research projects is the history of Australian Army rations, food, cooking and catering, mainly as a result of "work in progress" book on the history of feeding the Oz soldier since colonial times, being written for the Army History Unit. Research has put me in contact with a numbe...

Graham - one of these exploded with so much force that all those response teams were called in? That's amazing! Past a certain point I'd venture the only way to preserve any portion of the ration would be to empty the canned items. I've opened a few old rations under a great deal of pressure and ha...

Oh spare my blushes (as the author of the paper, which l researched and wrote at the behest of the Australia Army History Unit). Although I am more than happy to have my claim that the Australian issued O2 Ration was the world's first 24 hour rat pack, I'd need to see some pretty compelling proof. A...

Hello everyone. I have been meaning to join the Forum for some time as I have a long term interest in the logistics of feeding the Oz soldier from colonial times to the current day (I served in the Australian Army for 26 years). I am currently about two thirds of the way through a book for the Austr...