1. After travelling for a number of days, their dry rations ran out.
2. After travelling for a number of days, they ran out of their dry rations.
Are both correct? If not, I'd like to know why. Thanks in advance.
(1) After travelling for a number of days, their dry rations ran out.
(2) After travelling for a number of days, they ran out of (their) dry rations.
Both are okay - just two slightly different ways of saying the same thing. But (1) is slightly better as it's more succinct. In (2) "their" seems redundant, as it's obvious whose rations are being referred to.