mess-tin

He suddenly threw the mess-tin aside and slapped me across the face, back and forth.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

They were already looking towards me, and now someone yelled an order, and before I knew it I had been seized by grinning sowars and hauled into the presence of a burly daffadar* (* Cavalry commander of ten.) standing by the fire, a mess-tin in his hand and his tunic unbuttoned.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Every man held out his mess-tin -- but not one drop of coffee was to be drunk by any of them, for at that very moment a bomb from the Russian battery landed in their midst, upsetting the saucepan of coffee and exploding in the midst of the little crowd of men.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

The soldier still has on his sleeping cap (like the figure in the last picture); his mess-tin is by his side, and his rifle, encased in a waterproof cover.

A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire Harold Harvey

Behind, rolled waterproof-sheet and army blanket, with iron picketing-peg and rope, and mess-tin on top.

A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

The first sign I saw of our arrival in this country was a derelict mess-tin on a country station platform; at the next station I saw

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917 Various

I remember how on an occasion when the shelling was very heavy one man engaged himself in making soup as coolly as if nothing was happening until the earth knocked up by the shells began to drop into the mess-tin, when he gave us his opinion of the Boches in his own forcible vernacular.

A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire Harold Harvey

I should feel cold and wish to do some digging during the night, as I may do when the moon rises about ten; beside me a miserable candle lamp and my revolver, and after getting into my heavy overcoat, with my pack for a pillow, hard though it is with mess-tin, jug and other such like material inside, and a blanket over my feet, I hope to get a few hours 'sleep.

The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson

Wonderful and varied were the uses to which he could put an empty paraffin-tin or biscuit-box, and excellent were the stews he could produce out of a mess-tin.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

Occasionally bacon had to be fried in a mess-tin lid.

Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather