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• 'Trenchman' belt

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  First World War period commercially produced (unofficial) personal kit in the form of a broad waist belt, which was claimed by its manufacturers to provide protection for the wearer from body infestations (notably lice) and 'chills' resulting from the...

• Grenade Carrier MKI (10 pocket) British

  (equipment)

  First World War period British Army equipment. Used by specialist 'bombers' in close-quarter trench fighting, the grenade carrier contained 10 No.5 Mills bombs, one to each pouch.

• personal equipment, British Army Officer's Sam Browne

  (equipment)

  Standard army officer's personal equipment.

• Camouflaged Sniper's Gloves

  (souvenirs and ephemera) Made by: Tudor-Hart, Percyval 1917

  whole: A pair of gloves, hand-painted with a striped zig-zag camouflage pattern in greens, browns, blue, purple and red; the pattern is crossed by stripes of alternating narrow green and purple rectangles. The gloves are pleated on the back of each hand...

• Braces, O/Rs: British Army

  (uniforms and insignia)

  These braces are of standard wartime issue, whilst those issued from 1951 to present day are of elasticated cotton and are grey faced with a white reverse side.

• handkerchief, British

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  Purchased by a trainee tea-planter who worked for the donor's father and returned to England to enlist.

• housewife

  (equipment) Made by: John James and Sons Limited, Redditch (pins)

  holdall, thread (x 2), yarn, pin packet white cloth housewife roll; one end tapers to 2 ties; at other end is a pocket (containing roll of grey darning wool and packet of pins), on front of which is soft cloth patch for holding pins (through which is...

• Ancillary Equipment, Pigeon Message Container, British

  (equipment)

  British Pigeon Message Container.

• Respirator, Small Box Type & Haversack: British

  (equipment)

  First introduced in August 1916 and standard issue by the spring of 1917, the Small Box Respirator was the most advanced and practical anti-gas development used by British and Dominion forces in the First World War. The respirator consisted of a face...

• 1914 Pattern Leather Equipment

  (equipment)

  With the surge of demand to equip unprecedented numbers of new recruits into the army the Mills Equipment Company could not keep pace with supplying the conventional canvas 1908 pattern personal equipment. As an alternative, an equipment set was...