"food rations for privates vs NCOs vs officers" Topic
2 Posts
All members in good standing are free to post here. Opinions expressed here are solely those of the posters, and have not been cleared with nor are they endorsed by The Miniatures Page.
For more information, see the TMP FAQ.
Back to the Napoleonic Discussion Message Board
Areas of InterestNapoleonic
|
Osage2017  | 28 Apr 2018 2:52 p.m. PST |
Hello friends, My question is this. Were the food rations the same in size and quality for privates, NCOs, and officers ? |
| Le Breton | 28 Apr 2018 4:29 p.m. PST |
For Russians …. For NCO's and rankers – the same : they ate with their artel', a sort of communal small business that arranged food supplies delivery and cooking, gardens/fields in military settlements, sale of extra items (like a French cantinier) and managed private work done by the men (for extra pay) in their off-hours – typically an artel' had about a demi-platoon of men. For officers and their servants – the officiers received a cash allowance to buy food, the amount scaled to rank (and so also to the number of servants). As a pratical matter, especially on campaign, the company-grade officers mostly used their allowance to buy meals from an artel' of their own men, and hence mostly ate the same. Genral and field-grade officers were supposed to have enough extra allowance (or personal wealth) to provide for formal "diners" for the junior officers under their command. |
|
