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Part 5 of 8
A series of interviews by Doug Laurenson [Military Service no. 34957] of the Mobile Broadcasting Unit in Egypt, on the subject of how the New Zealand Army gets its food supplied and prepared.
Sergeant Cook "Paddy" Bourke is interviewed next. He is a veteran of World War I - and Doug Laurenson notes he is very well known in New Zealand. He sends a ""Cheerio"" to his wife says then his service number in the first war was 11/6, making him (he believes) the earliest veteran of that war, still serving currently. He notes his is a "King's Sergeant" also.
He runs through the meals he cooks for the New Zealand men, from breakfast, dinner at midday and a lighter tea at night. He notes the special meals for sick men who are convalescing (Horlicks and Ovaltine) and notes that the men do not want soup.
This item is part of a collection of recordings made by the Mobile Broadcasting Units, which travelled overseas with New Zealand forces between 1940-1945. They recorded New Zealanders' experiences of war and messages to their families and friends, which were sent back home to be played on a weekly radio.