Cooking Utensils for the Battery Left in the UK

The Battery HQ is now based in Villers-Marmery and so that is where the Battery diary is written.  The entry for 25 October 1939 gives the details of the Battery disposition around the various airfields used by the AASF.  I have been to each of these villages and there is no sign of the presence of airfields which must have been basic and temporary and as their name suggests, used grass run ways in fields.

Villers-Marmery 25/10/1939 0800 DISPOSITION OF BATTERY - four guns on site AIGNY - One troop in billets in AIGNY - One troop in billets in EPERNAY.  B>H>Q> in VILLERS-MARMERY.  It is palced on record that the Battery was ordered to leave all stores behind when leaving BRAMLEY consequently throughout the period 8/10/39 to date no cooking utnesils have been in the possession of the Battery resulting in inadequate feeding of the men.  Cooking utensils are still not available.  Cooking arrangements "en route" have been difficult and on many occasions NIL.  There have been no complaints as troops have been able to supplement rations at their own expense.