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Originally Posted by Hawthorn
Nice photograph, Last time I received a rum ration was standing in a line at the helipad at Bessbrook in South Armagh in 1982 before going out on patrol. Same big earthenware jug was used and we had to sign a register and were then presented with a big cook house spoonfull of rum which went down in one.
Imagine the issue of rum is long gone in these modern days.
Simon.
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We got a Rum ration in Germany, Exercise Iron Hammer -25. That was bloody cold.
Andy