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Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Perhaps Norm can confirm, but I've read and heard time and time again that the Canadians were the world's best scroungers... 
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Yes Geoff: The Canadian soldiers were amongst the best of scroungers. But here is a scrounge story in reverse.
During the Ortona episode tack headquarters moved into a large farmhouse which had two huge wine tanks. They were probably part of a co-op enterprise when our RSM witnessed a foot slogger filling his water bottle with some of the tank contents and I am sure this soldier really thought he had hit the mother load. Our RSM immediately sprung into action and carried out the atrocity of all atrocities he opened the discharge valves on both the tanks which left us slopping around in pools of wine for the next couple of hours. to the vino hounds in the regiment this was truly a heart breaking disaster.