HC Deb 01 April 1947 vol 435 c278W
43. Mr. Wyatt

asked the Secretary of State for War what is the weekly issue of soap to soldiers stationed in Italy and what arrangements are made for the laundering of clothes that cannot be washed by the soldiers using their weekly issue of soap.

Mr. Bellenger

Soldiers buy one three ounce tablet of toilet soap a fortnight from N.A.A.F.I. The soldier's personal clothing is normally washed for him by mobile R.A.O.C. laundries, or else by local contract. Where neither of these methods is practicable an issue of soap is made on a scale fixed by the General Officer Commanding.