2024年5月26日 · Expeditionary Force Canteens. In January 1915, the War Office established the Expeditionary Force Canteens (EFC) to fill this gap. Under the leadership of a British businessman named Lionel Rothschild, the EFC aimed to provide a "universal canteen service" for all British troops on the Western Front and beyond.

2023年11月17日 · Pages 49-50 state that in 1916 it was recommended that all canteens should be conducted by a central organisation which should be owned and controlled by the Army itself. On the 1st of January 1917, accordingly, the Army Canteen Committee was registered at the Board of Trade as “a company, not for profit” and limited by guarantee.

Expeditionary Force Canteen lorry MED 13 (Photo courtesy of the Holton family) Another photograph shows one of the five Fiat lorries that the EFC used in Italy to provide supplies to troops who could not get to a depot; a sergeant displays Oxo Cubes, Gibb’s Carbotar Soap, MacFarlane, Lang and Co Biscuits, and tins of Black Prince Salmon.

2019年1月8日 · The problem of a universal canteen service to serve the entire British military contingent was only solved the following year with the establishment of the Expeditionary Force Canteens (EFC) – a unit providing ‘small comforts and articles such, as they are used to purchasing in their canteens or regimental institutes.’

Researching soldiers of the British Army in the Great War of 1914-1918. In addition to the social support provided by the army in the form of the Army Chaplains Department and the Expeditionary Force Canteens, several other – principally religious – organisations provided facilities of enormous value to the troops.

NAAFI personnel serving aboard ship are part of the Naval Canteen Service (NCS), wear naval uniform and have action stations, but remain ordinary civilians. NAAFI personnel can also join the Expeditionary Force Institutes (EFI), which provides NAAFI facilities in war zones.

Expeditionary Forces canteen. Street scene in front of the Expeditionary Forces canteen at Base Hospital no. 12 in Camiers, France. Two men are standing in the middle of a dirt road while lighting a cigarette. Two nurses are walking on the road towards the viewer while another man is walking away from the viewer at the side of the road.

2006年8月27日 · April 22, 1918 – Sick parade in a.m. Went with Padre Davies to Proven to E. F. [Expeditionary Forces] canteen. Very heavily shelled at night with shrapnel. No mail since Friday.

2025年1月16日 · Catalogue description Expeditionary Force canteens. Arrangements for freight to France. This record has not been digitised and cannot be downloaded. You can order records in advance...

(50) C.1167 - Expeditionary Force canteen; Permanent URL: https://digital.nls.uk/74546392: Description: Spanish officers at the Expeditionary Force canteen, France. Seven officers are crowded onto the veranda of a wooden hut. The sign above the veranda says that this is Canteen No 6- the Veterinary Hospital. The officers are all uniformed and ...