Right, the recent mentioning of the Engineers has poked me into live in researching this.
For Ariel David would like to go as a royal engineer. So thus knowing what looks nice/right for them would be a good idea, and I have drawn a bit of a blank.
Hence I turn to you charming, and dare I say beautiful, chaps to aid in this construction.
My intuition says 37 Battle Dress/denims with a leather Jerkin has to be a must, with a tin hat.
So at the moment a standard 1940's infantryman. 
does anyone have any ideas how to 'engineer it up' a bit? Or do we think it's just a case of different badges?
Different cap badges.
Just Royal Engineers insignia.
Leather jerkins were cold weather gear on general issue, they are not an engineers specific item.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
does anyone have any ideas how to 'engineer it up' a bit?
Roll of barbed wire, hammer and a pair of pliers 
Leather Jerkins just say engineer though, must be my leather associations.
Pretty much is a pair of wire cutters isn't it...
Perhaps cartridge carriers rather than universal pouches as he's not a rifleman, but would be armed with a rifle? Just a guess...
Pretty sure RE got basic pouches Rich so you could carry det cord, grenades, smoker markers, detonators etc etc.
The non infantry cartridge carrier are quite often listed as 'artillery pouches' so i think they were mainly for RA, RASC and the like.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Fair enough, sounds sensible to me!
This is based on the amazingly historical source of miniature wargaming 
All the wwii brit sapper i have bought have had basic pouches and satchels!
May be worth looking into properly.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
lol...
At least it wasn't a computer game...
thats a lovely pic, but as you see tom hanks in an assualt vest in SPR, thats the brit equivelent, or known as a bren vest, issued en-mass for d-day, not seen in pics much after because they were heavy and sweaty. also remember, photographers were not allowed at the sharp end of battle. the pics we get from all wars are usually a fair bit behind the lines. this pic d-day yes, but not first wave. the first waves were cut down . there is very little film or photo from first hand combat. commanders did not want untrained, (sometimes civvy camera jockeys) giving awat the units position to the enemy. i dont think there is any engineer specific gear. the british army always has gone for uniformity. that way, we confuse the snipers.
It's quite a famous photo that one, in almost every D-Day book somewhere.
They are sappers, beach group looking at the white stripe on the helmet and small round shoulder insignia, the beach group wore a red fouled anchor on medium blue circular backing.
The battle jerkin featured a built in 'small pack'.
None of it much use for Ariel.
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