Talk:Benghazi burner

Merge

Moved here from Talk:Thermette

I realize that the Thermette is bit of a cultural icon to Aotearoa New Zealanders, but they are essentially a type of storm kettle. --scruss 14:14, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

They also have different manufacturers and different histories, with the Thermette article offering much information on their iconic status. I think it's better that they be separate. --Alvestrand 19:41, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

support merge. The kettles are simply manufactured from different materials (copper versus aluminum) and have a slight different shape (cylinder versus cone). The only reason not to merge would be brand name support. The alternative is that each manufacturer has a different page. We'll let this sit for a little while, but then, unless there is some reason not to, a merge should occur. Fremte (talk) 17:27, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Unless the New Zealanders have taken to stirring petrol into a tin of sand, Thermette belngs at Kelly kettle, not here at Benghazi burner. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:13, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Tea and the British Army

This article rather implies that the British Army discovered tea in the desert war. It has long held the relationship described here.

Captain Kincaid of the 95th mentions that on the morning or the Battle of Waterloo the 95th made a fire next to a cottage wall used by Lieut. Colonel Barnard and brewed a camp-kettle of tea:

As it stood on the edge of the high road, where all the big-wigs of the army had occasion to pass, I believe almost every one of them, in the early part of the morning, from the Duke downwards, claimed a cupful.

The incident was painted by James de Vine Aylward (1871–1966) Morning of Waterloo -- PBS (talk) 11:44, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Good point; it wasn't really intended that way. I'll try to correct it. Alansplodge (talk) 19:13, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

PBS, I have found an online reference for your quotation and have added it to the article - I trust you concur. Thanks for your input. Alansplodge (talk) 19:28, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the edit. Years ago I read a book called the The Long Walk (1956) by Slawomir Rawicz. I remembered one incident involving tea (questions have been raised fairly recently over whether the author did the walk of if it was someone else--see this BBC article How the Long Walk became The Way Back]), however whoever walked from Siberia, over the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas to India during World War II, ran into a British Indian Army border patrol who gave them a cup of tea! [1] -- PBS (talk) 20:14, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

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