The red/primer colored chest is the pattern used for 3-inch mortar bombs and for PIAT bombs (The II designation was when they modifed it for PIAT use also). It held two 3-bomb cardboard tube carriers.
The longer thin chest appears to be one used for five No 5 Anti-tank mines. If so, there would be a divider near one end and that is where the fuzes were kept. A shorter length version of that chest was what the 2-inch mortar bombs were carriered in.
Not sure on the largest one. Course most of these had numerous purposes as the war progressed and economic necessity forced more uses to be adopted for existing packaging.
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David Gordon - MVPA # 15292
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