CS95 Trial Garment- Jacket.

Hi Guys.

Here’s a CS95 Trial Jacket from my collection, I purchased this one from my local surplus store, and only paid £ 5.00 for it. The sleeves have been shortened (to aid with rolling the sleeves up, I suspect???) Apart from that modification it’s all complete.

Enjoy, and thanks for looking

I've got one like that aswell, still need to find the trousers, however I can beat your bargain as mine was £1

nice, havnt got a trials one yet, but I am looking!!

Mark

Neat shirt, Gary. Trial pieces are always so interesting!

We trialed these in Norway in 1993/94 we had 3 sets originally, what was strange was that the trousers had the canadian style buttons but the shirts didn't, the smock was rip stop and without a hood so we were issued a hood separately which we had sewn on by the tailoress, ( we needed hoods for crossing a avalanche areas. I hated the smocks so continued to wear my windproof type which I preferred. We had goretex jacket and trousers too which were brighlty coloured and suppose to be worn underneath our main combat clothing as they didnt have pockets. After the trial we kept everything but reverted to normal dress, we had to fill out a report about the trial too a massive booklet. Most people didnt like the kit for the arctic, a lot of it was shelved or redesigned before CS95 was issued.

Tommo wrote:I've got one like that aswell, still need to find the trousers, however I can beat your bargain as mine was £1

Thanks Mate, me too I want the trews too!!

You got lucky on the price, I forgot to mention I found a £50 note in the pocket

Camo_fiend wrote:Neat shirt, Gary. Trial pieces are always so interesting!

Thanks Ben, I totally agree with you there Mate

Grim Reaper wrote:We trialed these in Norway in 1993/94 we had 3 sets originally, what was strange was that the trousers had the canadian style buttons but the shirts didn't, the smock was rip stop and without a hood so we were issued a hood separately which we had sewn on by the tailoress, ( we needed hoods for crossing a avalanche areas. I hated the smocks so continued to wear my windproof type which I preferred. We had goretex jacket and trousers too which were brighlty coloured and suppose to be worn underneath our main combat clothing as they didnt have pockets. After the trial we kept everything but reverted to normal dress, we had to fill out a report about the trial too a massive booklet. Most people didnt like the kit for the arctic, a lot of it was shelved or redesigned before CS95 was issued.

Excellent info, that's what I like about this site, guys like you who have first hand experience of using this kit, and sharing it ...nice one mate, I really appreciate your input on this one

chevpol wrote:nice, havnt got a trials one yet, but I am looking!!

Mark

Cheers Mark

Great info! Thanks. I've seen comparatively little information about the details of the trials leading up to Soldier 95 and the changes that happened after. There's a lot of mystery about this to me

Steve

No worries fella, annoying part is I gave away to a Cadet in the street were I use to live the last pair of trousers and shirt I had, that was about 2 years ago, I do know that you can regularly find trial pieces at the War and Peace show every July. I love that show and go every year.....

My trials trousers arrived today, they were £3 and the shirt was £1...jammy git much? They were taken on my phone, so excuse the quality.


As grim reaper said, the trousers have Canadian type buttons, which is strange because the P94 and Early CS95 Jackets didn't have them and neither did the early CS95 Trousers, the waistband also have the older type buttons aswell.

Shirt and Trousers:




Canadian buttons on the map pocket:


Older type buttons (same as shirt) on the waistband:

Tommo wrote:My trials trousers arrived today, they were £3 and the shirt was £1...jammy git much?

Jammy git doesn't even begin to describe it!
All jealousy and jokes aside, those are some nice pieces. Thanks for sharing them.

Very nice Tommo ,congrats on these one's