A superb, ex-stores example of a single

World War Two

British Home Guardsman's

Emergency Issue Ammo Pouch

Dated 1941

With the outbreak of WW-II in September 1939

'37 pattern webbing as used by

Britain's front-line troops was in short supply

so to fill the gap for the newly created Home Guard,

leather pouches, designated M.39, were introduced to 

carry clips of .303  for their WW-I issued SMLE rifle.

In a stunning ex-stores condition,

never having been issued, nor the flaps closed over,

the back carries a War Dept Arrow and number 117

stamped into the leather whilst a black makers initials 

and a later date of

D.P & S. 1941

is over-stamped in black ink.

Part of a small batch of unissued, ex-stores, personal kit

recently uncovered,

 that would have been issued to a member of the

County of Hampshire's Home Guard

between 194o and 1944.

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