72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada - waughfamily.ca

BAPTISM OF FIRE.dation and blessings of thousands, for it came into universalbattalion use on the Somme, and after that time the menwere never without them. The type used by the 72nd wasafterwards adopted by many other battalions.That "necessity" which "is the mother of invention"prompted Pte. McGubbin in his original Tommy cooker. Itwas made out of an old pork and beans tin, cut down andfilled with sacking and fat. Though in use it produced considerable soot, it was very effective. One advantage it hadwas that any surplus fat used in frying could be returnedto the cooker to help in its future operation. (See illustration.)COOKING- r//yTOCor*!POL>/vc>)1{MMMMi**T)_O&GINALOn September 19th, 1916, the Battalion was relieved bythe Munsters, and moved out to Kemmel Shelters where onthe following day an issue of new boots was made to thewhole of the Battalion. Those boots will be remembered,for the newness of them combined with the intense heatand the cobbled roads of France caused considerable hard-25