I remember funerals/wakes in the 60’s and 70’s on two separate occasions.
The latter was a young co-pilot killed in a car crash near Marham a long time ago.
The funeral took place at Norwich Crematorium and the Wake was held in the Mess.
We all drank on this young man’s Bar Bill (some of us to excess).
At the next Mess Meeting some months later, the Mess Sec pointed out, in the ‘Any other business’ bit, that there was an unpaid Bar Bill by the late Fg Off Bloggs.
One guy stood up and proposed that it should be written off. The PMC asked for a Seconder and someone complied.
There was a vote, and unsuprisingly, it was unanimous, and the Mess, collectively, paid the bill