The Mess

At Fort Warren, feeding the hundreds of men on Georges Island kept the kitchens constantly busy. Soon after the fort's construction, two unfinished casemates in Bastion C were furnished with tables and benches and used as mess halls. In the early 1900s, one casemate became a bakery while the other stored kitchen supplies. During the Second World War, the bakery was converted back into a kitchen and mess hall. Soldiers sometimes added fish and waterfowl to their plain rations, and Fort Warren had two other mess halls as well. The chimney holes still remain in the walls.

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