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Great Britain: List of Stores for a Hospital of 500 Men Wellington's Army

                                                       

Item
Amount
Hospital Tents and Maquees, with poles 2
Palliasses 500
Blankets 500
Sheets 500 pair
Coverlids 500
Bolster Cases 500
Rice 2 cwt (224 pounds)
Oatmeal 1 cwt (112 pounds)
Sago 50 pounds
45 Gallon Copper and Trevet 1
Camp Kettles 50
Pint Pots 200
Quart Pots 100
Trenchers 200
Spoons 500
Portable Soup 1 cwt (112 pounds)
Round Tents, complete 2
Linen Shirts 200
Nightcaps 200
Jar of Oil with Wick 1
Large Tea Kettle 1
Flesh Fork and Soup Ladle 1
Scales and Weights 1 pair
Steelyard

1

Brass Cocks 2
Spades 2
Shovels 2
Saws 2
Hatchets 2
Nails 500
Hammers 2
Knives and Forks with Carvers 2 dozen
Vinegar 10 gallons
Salt 2 cwt (224 pounds)
Biers for Wounded Men 60
Flannel 200 yards
Tea 10 pounds
Sugar 1 cwt (112 pounds)
Port Wine ¼ cask
Bowls 100
Birch Brooms, Sweeping Brushes, Mops, and Scrubbing Brushes  
Water Buckets 6
Bedpans 6
Stool Pans 6
Chamberpots 200
Basins 10
Urinals 3
Saucepans 12
Lamps 10
British Spirit 3 gallons and cask
Hard Soap 2 cwt (224 pounds)
Soft Soap 1 cwt (112 pounds)
Stationery and Books 1 box
Candles  
Flour  
Raisins  
Bathing Tub 1

                                                                                

SOURCE:

Ward, S.G.P. Wellington's Headquarters Oxford : Oxford University Press; 1957. P. 199

 

Placed on the Napoleon Series: August 2001

 



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