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>Although tea drinking was a long established custom in the British Army (one account describes tea being liberally distributed on the morning of the Battle of Waterloo), the act of "brewing-up" (i.e., making tea) soon became "almost a ritual" in the desert campaign. One soldier recorded that morale was directly proportional to the "supply of brews" and that "tea had become as a drug to us".
>A battalion could use almost a hundred gallons (about 450 litres) of fuel per day in making tea. Recognising this, the British Government bought all the black tea available on the European market in 1942.
