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(An extract from 6th Airborne Divisional Signals Operational Standing Orders
dated May 1944)
- On the Man
- String Vest Next to skin
- Shirt
- Blouse
- Trousers AV (or breeches for DRs)
- Socks
- Boots
- Underpants(Summer Issue)
- Gaiters
- FaceVeil
- Helmlet P type (Sanded and scrimmed)
- Smock (Pullover - spare string vest and one pair of socks in seat pocket)
- Gloves para (para only))
- Identity Discs
- Webb belt
- 2 x Webb straps
- Pouches basic (Bren or sten mags)
- Toggle rope
- Respirator
- Clasp knife and lanyard
- Water bottle (slung till 1st 24hr ration is consumed)
- Knifes fighting
- 1st Field Dressing (In correct trouser pocket)
- Two Shell Dressings (Right hand lower smock pocket)
- 1 Morphine Ampoule
- Water Sterilising Tablets
- Rifle or Sten and full mag - Revolver
- Mae West
- 2 x 36Grenades
- 1 lb plastic
- Emergency ration
- Gloves silk
- Mug
- Small Pack
- Entrenching Tool
- Gas Cape
- Mess Tin
- 2 x 24 hr rations
- Knife, fork, spoon
- Change of underclothing
- Small Towel (½ or ¼ large towel)
- Holdall - Soap, comb, nail file, shaving brush, razor, razor blades (many as possible), shaving soap, toothbrush and paste, spare laces, small ball of string or twine, housewife, stick of candles.
- Dubbin and dubbin brush
- 2 Spare handkerchiefs
- Elastoplast
- Foot Powder
- Beret
- Pencil
- Few nails
- Safety pins
- Short length of special twine for tying Para Strop (for para only).
- AB 64 (ie, Pay Book)
- Spare Chocolates and cigarettes as space permits
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