McNeill Tulloch report Flashcards
Food
-No fresh meat and veg
-Bread replaced by biscuit
-Had to buy their own veg and bread, which cost 3 shillings a loaf
-No lime juice: scurvy
Unloaded at Balaclava on the 10th of Dec but distributed to front line troops in February
-Green coffee and raw meat: no heat
-Had to cook for themselves in a mess tin
-3 thousand additional bullocks would have meant fresh meat every alternate day
How much of the Army had died
35% from 1 Oct to 30 Apr 1855
Heat
-Men had to dig up roots for fuel because there wasn’t enough in supply
-Spent days and nights in muddy trenches
Men did not have a change of clothes so it was either soggy uniform or nothing
Transport
Commissary general expected 14,000 pack animals before his army was transported from Varna. Got 333 pack horses and mules and 12 camels
-Crowded shipping made it difficult to access the harbour, even when there was enough barley etc
-Hay and straw deficiencies after the 14th of Nov
-38% of animals sent the the Crimea died
Raglan
Favoured by the report to some extent
By the end of Jan 1855 he had to focus on the supplies
Disease
Scurvy meant that the men couldn’t eat the hard biscuits in their rations
-Men was the most wasteful expenditure
-Majority of casualties were due to disease
-Shortage of medical supplies
Ultimate conclusion
The fault of the Commissariat and their shortcomings in timing and supply
Run by civilians who didn’t know what they were doing
