QUIZ: Can You Guess What The WWI Trench Slang Means?

Caroline Gawlik|History|10 Apr 2019

Iron Rations

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Retry Correct Incorrect As early as the 1860s, the term iron rations referred to dry food rations like race, barley, and bread. In WWI, it changed to describe the shrapnel that was found in the trenches from enemy shell fire.
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Iron Rations

  • A soldier’s dry emergency rations
  • Shrapnel from shell fire
  • Food that contained a lot of iron
  • Ammunition or bullets
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