Transit chests

[scharfschutzen63]

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[Gil Boyd]

Mixed messages there on that chest.
Surveillance Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) akin with SF and 22 SAS, but BFPO 44 is Gutersloh RAF base in Germany, so I am not going to try to decifer that lot as some added paintwork may have been put on it to suit the buyer and the price IMHO!!!!
I know BFPO 44 was next to us at Paderborn which was BFPO 16 so certainly Germany so very odd.

[scharfschutzen63]

I am a little confused. These are three different chests.. Pictures 1 and 2 are one chest. Picture 3 is another chest. Pictures 4 and 5 are the last chest.
What do the markings mean on each chest?

[Nigel]

Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) was established on 6th April 2005 so very unlikely that L42A1's were still in service at that date. I've never seen the Initials shown as SR/R so I'm not sure whether it is SRR.

[Gil Boyd]

Nigel,
I agree, and the reason why I doubted them. 22 for instance NEVER marked their chests with that obvious marking, so that was my first issue.
The only SR/R I could attribute to was the Surveillance Recomnnaissance Regiment and the chest was used for soemthing else after the demise of the L42A1.
Can't think of any other unit using those initials other than Signals Regiment (SR) then what is the extra R for? But 22 SAS Sigs Det is 264 and that is nowhere to be seen on the 22 SAS chest for instance!
Just trying to help, not much more I can impart I'm afraid maybe someone else can try!

[Pete110119]

BFPO44 was, if I’m not mistaken the base in Delmenhorst which housed a succession of a British
Air Defence Artillery and a couple of US Army detachments before bieng taken over by the Bundeswehr. Gütersloh was BFPO 47 and was an RAF base until 1993 when it was taken over by the Army as a logistics base and later to include an Army Air Corps Unit. I was in the base many times doing PRI on the weapons held there, we also had our clay pigeon club on the back end of the airfield. I’ve even hunted duck, hare and deer on the airfield. Our hunting club hosted the annual hunters dinner in the Officers mess, which had an interesting museum in the attic. Quote „ Airfield construction began in 1935, and the station was active in 1944–45 with Ju 88 Nightfighters of 5./NJG 2 (Nachtjagdgeschwader 2) as part of the Defense of the Reich defensive aerial campaign fought by the Luftwaffe.

The tower of the Officers' Mess contains a room known as Göring's Room. Legend has it that Hermann Göring used this room to relive his wartime exploits with the new generation of flyers. Reportedly a favourite expression of his was "If I should lie, may the beam above my head crack". In response to this a junior officer arranged that the beam be sawn through and, by a system of pulleys, that the beam should appear to crack in response to the Reichmarschall's challenge. An article appearing in Flight magazine in 1946 has the same story with "an elderly station commander" featuring in the Göring role. From interviews with Luftwaffe personnel of the period, it appears that Göring visited the station before and during the war. A photograph of the Reichmarschall supposedly at Gütersloh is displayed in the Officers' Mess“

i can attest to that. Görings picture was definitely hanging on the wall and the beam could be made to crack and drop at the pull of a lever, surprising many a guest..

Anyhow, sorry for the non chest related history anecdotes..

S.R.B. 5 could simply be Sniper Rifle B Company 5 Platoon. As the painting and marking of these chests was often left to the arms storeman.

22 SAS on the chest is b§€%&cks imho.

[Gil Boyd]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh Pete thats how you spell B.......cks I was wondering. I think its a sales pitch that 22 SAS one BFPO 44 was Gutersloh as well, but heyho who knows how many Post Offices we had over there, loads!!

[Pete110119]

hi Gil. I’ve just looked it up.. Gütersloh was BFPO47. But BFPO 44 was changed in 1958 from Delmenhorst to Dulmen. Which would make the forward ordnance depot correct. As that’s what the camp at Dulmen was, still is, the Yanks use it now. Been there many a time too. We used to back load our weapons scrap through there.
Im still holding the fort in BFPO 36.

[DanL96a1]

This tread is interesting with regards 5/7, but I suspect that the information will be under the yellow paint and red paint. https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=59600

I don’t feel the “sas” box is correct.