Stories about tea in the war: PRESS HERE AND HERE
A brew-up: was the tea break itself. The equipment was the brew up kit
Tommy cooker: the folding solid-fuel stove (or a vehicle that caught fire)
Gurkha tea: contained more condensed milk than tea
Tea blocks: (tea, sugar and whitener combo)
Tea tablets: very strong compressed tea in a small drum called SBC "service blend compressed" but often called "some blokes choke" because of the aroma of old socks
Repurposed tins -, both as stove and kettle. Imperial War Museum.
Video on how to make tea - as a soldier WW2 HERE
