By the end of the war, the Allied ammunition and supply dumps were vast affairs, a single one covering possibly hundred of acres, with ammunition boxes, and boxes of tins of bully beef, hard tack biscuits and meat and vegetable stew stacked in rows twenty feet high. Then there were the tank, vehicle and artillery parks, and the petrol and oil dumps, which, with the clothing and equipment, and munitions dumps were if anything even larger. In addition to all this of course, were the hundreds of... Sign in to see full entry.