Correct frog for a No9 Mk1 bayonet?

[Peter Laidler]

Like the others, I'm not sure that there was a specific frog for the No9 bayonet. You just used what you were issued with. Usually after your 6 weeks basic training. I don't recall anyone asking the QM staff for a specific type of bayonet frog. Mind you, you'd soon get short shrift and learn a few new useful words at the same time too.

Were frogs, slings and belts issued in white.........? Please tell me! Some of the frogs and slings were dated to the 20's. In the Far East theatre, such things were not used as our frogs were part of the 44 pattern pouches

We occasionally used white slings but they were all the old khaki, scrubbed clean and whitened. Same as the frogs and belts. I remember the very last time I wore a white belt, sling and frog was at Tidworth in 1971 on the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, as part of a mixed Quarter Guard