“You see those lovely rations they’re getting on TV and I look back at the stuff our lot were getting – it was terrible”.

A passing remark made by the 96 year old Jack Wilson as he watched a report from Iraq from a soldier in the Durham Light Infantry about to take place in the First Iraq War in 1992.

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