L42: CES contents

[Sgreg]

Experts please step in. The L-42 user handbook issued in 1971 makes no mention of a compass or wristlet as standard to the chest. I have read members here discussing those two items as bring part of the chest. Mine is complete per the handbook. Which is correct??

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[Sgreg]

Add to previous post. Binoculars are also not mentioned on the CES. So that makes three items that are sometimes in sometimes out of the chest. Confusing ?

[Roy W]

Surely those are Sniper's equipment, not part of the Rifle CES?

Both would be 'starred items' requiring personal signature from the QM stores to get them. Nobody would leave them in a rifle chest to be stolen.

[Gil Boyd]

Never ever had binos/compass/watch/nightsight all sat in an L42 chest left in an armoury EVER!. They all need individual care, ie batteries charging etc.
Yes it formed part of the CES and that was that on paper.

It is what it is, a transit chest, those items would have been G1033'd to you and you decide where you place them whilst in transit, with the chest in your possession, thats what the slots and partitions were for.....end of.
Those starred items would have been like Gold, you would treasure them as you would the rifle, and all returned to the place from whence they came after operations.

[Flying10uk]

https://www.milsurps.com/content.php...No4-or-L42-CES