If your after a similar sleeping bag because you want to sleep as most soldiers' did, then this is your sleeping bag: + McVickers, believe it or no...

Thanks Ramsay. I'll do that and use my postwar SA army braces (same as the grey/blue Brit ones) for actual playing in.

Indeed i got a mint condition service respirator in bag dated 1938 with the fabric covering on the face plate for about £15... but the first one i b...

Thanks McVickers. The problem here is the shipping to SA is sometimes exhoberent and then you sometimes pay duties and stand a chance of it getting s...

Of interest may also be my walking compasses, which live in a tin in the far corner of my garage. One is post war Rhodeisan made, one is SA made (I t...

I made pretty good looking ones for a home-made Thompson drum mag pouch (a dreamed-up item of kit) which copies the general build arrangement of a sta...

Some more pics on the SA airsoft site.

Locally in South Africa a lot of the kit is hard to come by, but we recently discovered one of the bush shirts locally made, will make a fairly near c...

Since I was making them, here are a whole lot I turned out for the lads here in SA

I've seen also both belts used, but have seen quite a few pics of specifically SA troops with the leather belt. Martin Brayleys KD & JG shows to w...