Some less common Brit kit

MoD survival knife.

The old sheath is one I've had for 28 years. I lost the knife somewhere after the handles finally fell off. The knife is new as is the other, pointed sheath it came with.

I did the usual mod' of taking down the wooden handles so that they are the same profile as the tang. Word was it was bigger to stop your hands getting frozen to the tang but i think it was just to give you whopping blisters and make you even more miserable than you already were !

As tree-beaters go, very useful but doesn't compare with my Bear Grylls Bayley knife !







Now the '44 patt twin dropped ammo pouches.





SAS ration pouch. Takes the small ration tin only and space filled with E&E kit.





Altimeter pouch .....







'44 pattern waterbottle pouches and '44 bottle and '58 bottle









ESS goggles with rare prescription insert.



Mint '58 pattern belt. Still a good iece of kit !



Now a non British waterbottle. Canadian and of steel and insulated like a vacuum flask.



And a lovely Norwegian small pack. designed to carry the tent section and poles. When empty compacts down quite small duw to the sectional back pad.





That's all for now, Dave

Never seen the 44 pattern water bottle carrier with alice clips ??

Good stuff

Cliff

And some more common kit .............

Common as muck issue stainless clasp knife with VERY rare pouch .....
FRONT


Back with issue stamps and crow's foot


WW2 clasp or jack knife (so named after the British sailors who first carried them - Jolly Jack Tars )
Although this one is actually brand new and brought recently .

Very nice

How about a betalight ,
For all your tactical map reading needs ,




Cliff

I haven't needed to look at a map covertly for a long time. I just use a flashlight

Most seen on ebay are well past their use by date. But if you have one to fill the pouches of the webbing you collect, that doesn't really matter. As long as you don't pay much for one.

But thanks for adding them to this thread as they are indeed relatively rare and obscure.

Although posted elsewhere, here's the canvas waterbag;

nice kits

by saying less common do you mean less commonly liked or less commonly issued???

Less commonly issued. Otherwise I'd have called the thread 's*** Brit Kit'

Hey, maybe that's a thread worth starting but not here as most collectors here don't appear to have served and so won't know what is good or bad by use in the field. As well as the fact that this place is all about camo uniforms and even olive green isn't considered worthy of a mention I just snuck this thread in under the radar for Brit only kit.

Hmm...

I can name you quite a lot of 'S***' Brit Kit!

P85 Stuff
Cadet Assault Vest
I'd even go as far as saying the Standard Brit Assault vest
Oh, and the chestrig!!!

Boots, ankle, DMS and puttees ....... shirts, KF, itchy .......
'58 pattern large pack .....

Agree with P85 stuff - although left before it came into use. The other stuff was probably good when used for what it was designed for ......

Perhaps you should start a new thread Tommo ........ or start one for good kit - of all nations........

heard s95 trousers were terrible when it came to being long lasting.....other than that ive heard brit kit seem to be generally quite decent-from smocks to trop dpms...

The short-lived RIPSTOP S95 trousers were the dogs danglies .............

hehehe from the dogs bollox to just bollox

I still have a couple of pairs of the ripstops - somewhere ....... at least i don't recall selling or trading them

mate i take it the trous were made of the same material as the ripstop smocks?? cos the ripstop smocks after some use turned quite uncomfortable for me to waer with all those small notches coming out

You can't be SASR then .... they love the sensation !

Bury_Dave wrote:The short-lived RIPSTOP S95 trousers were the dogs danglies .............

Pockets and Velcro at the Bottom? fantastic bit of kit!

Agreed on KF, DMS and Large Pack...however I wear KF and DMS for reenacting, the DMS are fantastic for WW2 Stuff!

And maybe I should start a 'Good British Kit' thread?

Bury_Dave wrote:Less commonly issued. Otherwise I'd have called the thread 's*** Brit Kit'

Hey, maybe that's a thread worth starting but not here as most collectors here don't appear to have served and so won't know what is good or bad by use in the field. As well as the fact that this place is all about camo uniforms and even olive green isn't considered worthy of a mention I just snuck this thread in under the radar for Brit only kit.

Great Pics Dave but------Less commonly issued.

Were the Canuk canteen and Norgi Ruck ISSUED?

May well have been procured and used but were they ISSUE Brit kit

Tommo wrote:

Bury_Dave wrote:The short-lived RIPSTOP S95 trousers were the dogs danglies .............

Pockets and Velcro at the Bottom? fantastic bit of kit!

Agreed on KF, DMS and Large Pack...however I wear KF and DMS for reenacting, the DMS are fantastic for WW2 Stuff!

And maybe I should start a 'Good British Kit' thread?

Are you a member of Forces 80 ?

Gulf91 wrote:

Great Pics Dave but------Less commonly issued.

Were the Canuk canteen and Norgi Ruck ISSUED?

May well have been procured and used but were they ISSUE Brit kit

You got me there - they were acquired.

Tommo wrote:

Bury_Dave wrote:The short-lived RIPSTOP S95 trousers were the dogs danglies .............

Pockets and Velcro at the Bottom? fantastic bit of kit!

Agreed on KF, DMS and Large Pack...however I wear KF and DMS for reenacting, the DMS are fantastic for WW2 Stuff!

And maybe I should start a 'Good British Kit' thread?

Sort of, I'm apart of CF89 and the WWII LHG '6th Airborne'

Issue water filter from OIF ......