Proper Holster for an Australian Navy Marked Enfield MK VI 455

[Peter Laidler]

All this different colour webbing nonsense ended in the early 70's when Sir Derek Rayner got to grips with the stupidity of the RAF having a blue/grey colour webbing. I mean, whatever were they thinking.......? Did they think that they'd have to use their webbing in the sky? They even used to purchase vehicles in the same colour........... to use on the land! Defies belief doesn't it. Same as the Navy. Whjte webbing that would stand out anywhere except perhaps in the North Atlantic around Greenland. Their vehicles were dark blue so that they would be camouflaged in a typically dark blue landscape found around the dockyards of Portsmouth and Plymouth! Nope, he said that webbing was webbing and that it'd all be khaki. Same as vehicles...... khaki and any vehicle that was unlikely to go to war, such as mini-vans and cars etc etc wouldcome in the usual commercial colours.