First Issue 1937 Pattern Web Equipment - Part II

The second part in a series looking at the 1937 pattern web equipment.
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[@lunaparsons2171]

Could you make a video, like a one mans kit about the BEF on the retreat to Dunkirk as that's what our group mainly focuses on and I can never find a video on that subject? :)

[@andrewjohnston4127]

Be interested to see something like that too

[@russbooth6766]

I get home from work and treated to another video from Rfn Moore. Today is a good day :)

[@davidbrennan660]

Another video on 37 pattern equipment? And spoilers for minor variations tocome...... gone to “smelliness “ heaven. Today is a good day.

[@mikewinston8709]

I was in the RCT….in the BAOR. We used 37 until 1976….we were then brought ‘up to date’ by having putters issued and the ‘new’ 58 webbing. How the Russians must have laughed…..

[@jakebrowncollection1772]

Great video mate as usual 👍

[@kathryntaylor3516]

thanks for all your vids and teaching me about the uniform i am now a reanactor for the grenadier guards

[@5.7moy]

Splendid.

[@wildweasel8564]

I picked up a complete set of post war unissued Canadian 1937 Web Gear in LARGE some years ago for $40 US. It makes for a nice display with my No4Mk1 rifle with bayonets. More recently found a Canadian C7 Nella bayonet mixed in with a pile of US M7 bayonets for for $20 and paid that much again for the correct scabbard and frog, since no clone C7 rifle is truly complete with a stainless steel bayonet and flimsy nylon 30 round Thermmelt magazine.

[@andrewcombe8907]

The British reluctance to issue water bottles that are easily accessible by their troops eludes me.

[@456tetert]

hi i have a pair of RNZAF 1937 pattern ammo pouchs and it was made longer for the sten mags like mk2 but they still have the three blank round loops up to

[@5.7moy]

I would love to see you do an overview of a British submarine crew rollneck,if you have one.

[@njmaxton4530]

That’s not a 1908 pack; it’s a 1970s school bag. All the cool kids had them 😂

[@auscam6666]

i see your 2nd Basic pouch has an NX serial number on the rear for a member of the Second AIF who enlisted in New South Wales mate. Most likely he got that issued in North Africa or possibly a member of the 6 DIV Battalions who were diverted to the UK in 1940 & garrisoned southern England during the Battle of Britiain?

[@troynorgrove6672]

Nice to see an Aussie service number. In case you didn't know that service belonged to MORRIS, CHARLES HECTOR enlisted 1940

[@RiflemanMoore]

Good to know, thank you! The early Mk Is came from Australia and I knew the number was Aussie but had not researched it.

[@harrimskaijansinkko5349]

Hi! Thanks fo fine videos! I have seen pictures of British Commandos in Normandy and after it wearing Pattern 37 webbing together with Norwegian style framed Bergen rucksacks. Can you please tell more about them! Greetings, Harri from Finland.

[@MaxSluiman]

We used this crap in the Dutch army untill 1994. No joke.

[@nickl2909]

I have a Canadian universal pouch that has those loops even though it’s dated 1941. Funny how they stop in Britain but keep going in other countries.

[@RiflemanMoore]

Indian production pouches also retain them. My assumption has always been that Empire/Commonwealth production simply worked from the initial specification.

[@nickl2909]

@@RiflemanMoore good to know. Thanks.

[@spm36]

I have a 1944 12th Devons uniform(repro) as a part of Op Tonga glider landings, which webbing would I need, did they use 37 webbing? Cheers

[@flatmoon6359]

Not very easy to use in Prone position I'd have thought. Could they be moved to sides.

[@thurin84]

ive got an odd skeleton water bottle carrier. instead of a male and female snap arrangement, its got 2 female snaps and the straps wont quite meet over the waterbottle. is there a separate piece that goes over the top of the bottle to connect them or is this just a manufacturing error? its marked "D. C. M. LTD. 193?". the snaps are marked "N B L TD"

[@ChrisSalmonYYC]

Was the British mess tin sometimes carried in the skeletonized water bottle carrier or did they use special webbing?

[@davidbrennan660]

The Canadians did it as a fairly common mid to late war soldier fix, normally worn on the opposite side to the water bottle, others did as well on and off, but I believe the Canadians started it. Please correct to me.

[@davidbrennan660]

The Canadians did it as a fairly common mid to late war soldier fix, normally worn on the opposite side to the water bottle, others did as well on and off, but I believe the Canadians started it. Please correct to me.

[@RiflemanMoore]

It was a popular thing with Canadian forces in the latter stages of WWII and through Korea, hence they introuced a mess tin pouch on their next set of equipment, the 1951 Pattern. The pracitce was also carried on by British troops to a limited degree, it's particularly notable late in the war when fighting through Germany when haversacks were often dispensed with.

[@Veritas419]

Do you have a set of the RAF 37 pattern?

[@RiflemanMoore]

I have some, yes but not a full set.

[@ac9356]

Why is the bayonet holder called a frog for ad I don’t t see any resemblance to a frog lol