Some kind member of the unit managed to get me some bovril, as I was not allowed solid food.
"My Diary in Serbia: April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915"
Monica M. Stanley
For the rest, I lean up on my elbow when I can, and cook some little thing-bovril or hot milk-on my Etna stove.
"My War Experiences in Two Continents"
Sarah Macnaughtan
The words danced before Michael's eyes in letters of gold, like the advertisement of bovril which he had watched so often from the Thames Embankment, as it appeared and disappeared in the sky across the river.
"There was a King in Egypt"
Norma Lorimer