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Personal armour
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:03 pm
by Aughnanure
I guess that this would be an accoutrement (perhaps):
from the Australian War Memorial, Copyright expired.
Caption: England. Soldier modelling Franco-British armour comprising steel cap, splinter goggles and armour to be worn under a tunic. [WW I]
Re: Personal armour
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:06 pm
by Niner
Well.....Halloween is only a couple or three weeks away.
Re: Personal armour
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:07 am
by Dave 101
I believe that armour was worn by WWI tank crews as a defence againts metal splinters showering around the inside of the tank .
Dave
Re: Personal armour
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 11:42 am
by Tom-May
I think you'll find that that kit was private purchase infantry equipment.
Tank crews had enough to do trying to move around in an unsprung box with minimal room, so they wouldn't have wanted to be encumbered with armour.
Apart from helmets (either steel, or the leather/fibre board contraptions) to only protective equipment available was either goggles or a mail screen over the face; and these, I believe, were were primarily to protect the eyes from paint chips, flaked off the interior by bullet inpacts on the outside.
At least the British armour in the first post looks a little lighter than this German items - apparantly modelled by 4 Americans (at a guess)
Re: Personal armour
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:12 am
by 24626151
The Germans also resorted to Long puttees.
Re: Personal armour
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:37 pm
by Tom-May
24626151 wrote:The Germans also resorted to Long puttees.
True, but the characters in the photographs all seem to be wearing American style (1908?) breeches, and shirts (not German pattern) and at least two seem to carrying Small Box Respirator bags. In addition, one wears 1910 gaiters and two are holding the
American pattern Chauchat automatic rifle (as opposed to the more common French pattern).
Re: Personal armour
Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:44 am
by 24626151
Tom-May wrote:24626151 wrote:The Germans also resorted to Long puttees.
True, but the characters in the photographs all seem to be wearing American style (1908?) breeches, and shirts (not German pattern) and at least two seem to carrying Small Box Respirator bags. In addition, one wears 1910 gaiters and two are holding the
American pattern Chauchat automatic rifle (as opposed to the more common French pattern).
Agreed, its the gaiters and others that give it away!
