Beer in France Reports of delays in delivering English beer to troops in France recall the efforts made to keep Briti ish troops thus provided in a forgotten campaign in France—that of Henry VIII.. in 1511}, states a Avriter in the Sydney publication Reveille. In an abortive campaign in Spain in the previous. year ? beer was lack- 1 ing and the troops complained that "the hot wines ido burn them and the cider doth cast them in disease and sickness." Cardinal Woolsey, Henry's great war Minister, resolved that this should not occur again, and he arranged that the troop; should get the generous allowance of' one gallon a man a day. In spit'.' of all his. careful arrangements, however there were l'requent delays in supply to owing chiefly t<> the shortage of casks-.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 40, 16 January 1945, Page 6
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