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Meat ration card of King George V and Queen Mary of Teck. Image courtesy Imperial War Museum © IWM Q 30521.
- Meat rationing is introduced in Britain. Sugar had been rationed since January 1918; tea, butter, margarine, jam and cheese would shortly follow. Food and the First World War