Recruit Training 1960

[Peter Laidler]

Look for recruit training or assault course 1960 and see what crops up. As for the second part of your Q...... It would all depend on the Brigade QM. They would want to waste out all the old stuff first. We were still using '37 blanco type webbing until the end of 1965 and No4's during Military/arduous Training classes until '64 or so. Same happened when the '58 pattern stuff was phased out. It just seemed to go on for ages.........

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[Strangely Brown]

We were still using '37 blanco type webbing until the end of 1965 and No4's during Military/arduous Training classes until '64 or so. Same happened when the '58 pattern stuff was phased out. It just seemed to go on for ages.........

We were still using 37 Pat webbing (albeit black boot polished) up until 1972 whereupon my Bty OP party (RA Regt) were issued with 58 Pat because we were supporting 3 RGJ.
I always used a mix of 44 Pat & 58 Pat bought surplus in Brighton because you could generally not get stuff through the normal channels.