Life in camp

Posts : 37 Join date : 2010-07-25

Can anyone tell me what life was like in a soldier's camp? Did they eat at their tents or were tables set up? what was a typical day like when they weren't fighting? What time did they get up and go to bed? How did they wash, shave, keep their uniforms clean etc

Posts : 2558 Join date : 2009-04-06 Age : 62 Location : UK

Curling gives some information on this in the book below.
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Most ate in their tents or in the open if the weather was nice.

Posts : 249 Join date : 2013-06-01

I have just finished reading Zulu Rising by Ian Knight - an epic read btw. He sets out the scenes really well and it is mainly all based on contemporary first hand accounts.

Subject: Life in camp Sat Jun 29, 2013 4:00 am

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Hi Horsefixer .
This will no doubt answer most of your questions and its well priced as well .

Posts : 420 Join date : 2011-05-14

horsefixer,

For an idea of how camp life looked:

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Note the soldier underneath the wagon.

'Jimu

Subject: Re: Life in camp Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:45 pm

Some idea of camp life. In a bell tent!
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Subject: Re: Life in camp Sun Jun 30, 2013 10:29 pm

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Subject: Life In Camp Sun Jun 30, 2013 11:28 pm

Hi Horsefixer.
From memory after Isandlwana , I dont think the Troops with Chelmesford had the use of tents , they weren't taken on the second invasion , happy to be corrected .
90th.

Subject: Re: Life in camp Sun Jun 30, 2013 11:41 pm

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Couple of chaps cooking, left hand side of image!

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The wagon park at Fort Chelmsford, 1879:

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