Rum & Baccy
Both aviation and medicine have evolved over the ages.
Whilst in '61 undergoing a prolonged and refined form of medieval torture in Ely Hospital we were served a 1/2 pint bottle of pale ale every evening and had our ash trays emptied more often than our beds made up. One evening a fellow inmate's (Waterbeach Javelin driver) Squadron commander visited with a full crate to pass his wife's confinement rather than pace the corridors. After having visited his new born he returned with two crates.
And now Danny for the interest of your dutiful carer an incite into McIndoe. A work colleague who had been only a lowly MT driver told me that nothing was too good for McIndoe's boys and he personal had regularly both champagne and VSOP brandy, both of which can only have been in very short supply in mid '43.