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[bedended]

40 years ago.View attachment 665819

Morning @Fang_Farrier,
Bulled boots?

 

[Lardbeast]

Seen plenty of FALs in Rhodesian service. You only need to look at pictures of C Squadron/Selous Scouts.

Yup, swapped out my first R1 with plastic bits for a wood furniture (I think ex Rhodie judging by the paint) FN.

SA had a bunch of heavy barrel R1/FNs. Known as the Swaar Loop R1 and used in a support role where Brens or MAGs would be used. They were on their way out when I was in.

 

[Cold_Collation]

Morning @Effendi,
I seem to remember a British squaddie was also held at Auschwitz, or one of the other camps.
Hopefully someone on here will be able to coinfirm this.

F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Cold_Collation]

Morning @Fang_Farrier,
Bulled boots?

Just brush-polished.

 

[wasteofrations2]

Morning @Effendi,
I seem to remember a British squaddie was also held at Auschwitz, or one of the other camps.
Hopefully someone on here will be able to coinfirm this.

At least one was a forced labourer at the IG Farben factory, essentially Auschwitz three. The factory still exists after a fashion, a film crew followed him there some years ago.

 

[bedended]

F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Morning @Cold_Collation,
I knew about him but he was RAF. The one I'm thinking of was deffo a squaddie and Buchenwald doesn't ring a bell for the one I'm thinking of.

 

[bedended]

At least one was a forced labourer at the IG Farben factory, essentially Auschwitz three. The factory still exists after a fashion, a film crew followed him there some years ago.

Morning @wasteofrations2,
That sounds like the one I was thinking about. Sure he wrote a book about it but may be mistaken.

 

[Bodenplatte]

Dib dib dib.

Dyb.

For "Do Your Best."

 

[Bodenplatte]

Morning @wasteofrations2,
That sounds like the one I was thinking about. Sure he wrote a book about it but may be mistaken.

https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/features/revealed-the-british-troops-imprisoned-at-auschwitz-1.13446

 

[smartascarrots]

Dyb.

For "Do Your Best."

I wouldn't know, my **** chrysanthemum remains unruffled.

 

[_Chimurenga_]

Morning @wasteofrations2,
That sounds like the one I was thinking about. Sure he wrote a book about it but may be mistaken.

Charles Coward, The Password is Courage ?

 

[Border_Reiver]

Charles Coward, The Password is Courage ?

@bedended
Somewhere I have a copy of the book .... IIRC BSM Charles Coward was awarded , together with Winston Churchill , a rare award after WW2 by the government in Israel .

 

[Effendi]

40 years ago.View attachment 665819

Puttees, thats why things have slid, no one wears puttees anymore.

 

[Ortholith]

Puttees, thats why thing have slid, no one wears puttees anymore.

It does seem odd to think that blokes being sent to fight in a very wet, cold, windy bog would be doing so in ankle high boots. I know it's what happened but still strikes me as bizarre every time I hear it.

 

[Cold_Collation]

It does seem odd to think that blokes being sent to fight in a very wet, cold, windy bog would be doing so in ankle high boots. I know it's what happened but still strikes me as bizarre every time I hear it.

Two schools of thought back in the day. One was that a short boot with puttees would dry out faster, and not hold water in like a taller boot.

The (main) problem with the DMS in my mind was the lack of a bellows tongue. You got wet feet even walking in long grass.

 

[QRK2]

It does seem odd to think that blokes being sent to fight in a very wet, cold, windy bog would be doing so in ankle high boots. I know it's what happened but still strikes me as bizarre every time I hear it.

However It appears that 40years later we're heading back to ankle boots albeit rather better made ones.

 

[QRK2]

The (main) problem with the DMS in my mind was the lack of a bellows tongue. You got wet feet even walking in long grass.

That and the crap 'leather'.

 

[Cold_Collation]

However It appears that 40years later we're heading back to ankle boots albeit rather better made ones.

Yes, but ankle boot with bellows tongue, internal membrane and a gaiter. Makes best sense.

 

[blackmetallic]

It does seem odd to think that blokes being sent to fight in a very wet, cold, windy bog would be doing so in ankle high boots. I know it's what happened but still strikes me as bizarre every time I hear it.

Not really. The Falklands is the reason Combat 95 was created. The imperative to change was needed, and war/conflict usually is the accelerant.

 

[tiger stacker]

Don’t forget that dubbin was used much more back then