Badged up BD with anklets, Leather Jerkin, beret and collared shirt. Webbing will be skeleton ammo pouches and water bottle. I will plan to use my No.4 but have my S&W for close work. I will want to give my 1928 a go at some stage but do not want to be out SMGing the opposition. Or some variation there on if warm/cold/wet.
Unbadged BD with skeleton webbing plus cap comforter (Anne) and tin hat (Barrie).
We shall have our top buttons undone to accord with the "rag order" business.
We will be packing a No.4 (Barrie) with 1911, and a garand (Anne).
I've never used a pistol before but have a holster on the way from SoF and will hopefully have worked out how to operate both by Sunday.
Unbaged? What happened to this: http://www.ww2airsoft.org.uk/zoom/2commando.html
I removed the 2 commando insignia when I rebadged as Oxf & Bucks for varsity, I then removed that insignia and used some of it to badge up one of my other BD blouses as South Staffs 
I may put the 2 commando back if I get time, (this time I'll make sure the guns point the right way 
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Would it be MkII or Mk III helmets if one was to wear one? I know Italy was bit of a muddle.
MkII I would have thought.
Yup, MKIII only just made it to some units for Normandy.
Supplying them to secondary theatres is unlikely.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
i believe( correct me if i am wrong) but the majority of MK3 helmets went to the canadians ( no idea why)
i believe( correct me if i am wrong) but the majority of MK3 helmets went to the canadians ( no idea why)
I thought that, I don't know if it is accurate or just one of those cultural memory things. MkIII = Canadian in my head.
All my pics of Italy and such show the MkII, and that is what feels right.
I'll leave the Turtle at home then.
the british had them but i believe the balance was largely in the canadians favour.
Most likely as the Canadian army was refitted before Normandy wasnt it.
They were rarely sent to the field in great numbers before D-day and its only around D-day the canadian army in the UK get sto divisional strength.
My *guess* would be that most british squaddies already had a MKII by then and it was economically unsound to recall them all... re-issue MKIII, then issue all the MKIII to canadians.
Some MKIII were used by D-day assault troops.
Its much the same when 37 pattern kit came in . Militia and territorial units often got it first because they were being mobilised. The regular army already had vast stocks of SD to get through.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
horus, if you want to put your small pack on a strap as a side bag, i have a spare strap (not blancoed) you can borrow.