Running the Gauntlet to the Trenches: The Hot-Soup Man

Category

Library Item

Item no

32717

Title

Running the Gauntlet to the Trenches: The Hot-Soup Man

Description

From the Illustrated London News published February 24th, 1917, page 227. Official Photograph. Full title: Ensuring the food supply under fire: the new soup-container, as carried by one man to the trenches strapped on a soldier's back.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1917

Size

39.6 x 26.7 cm

Type

Press cutting; Reproduction

Location

Reference Library

Life in the trenches was often stagnant and full of miseries like mud, barbed wire, rats, rain and trench foot. The dismal life in the trenches was not helped by the food; hot food, though badly wanted by the men in the trenches, was nearly impossible to provide as food carriers had to run the vast expanses of the trenches while dodging stray bullets.

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