The boxes loo.k like LP boxes
In the attached pic the two tall boxes are about 8" square and 10" high.
They hold Iron rations and Cooking Utensils in an LP carrier.
If you look at the bits in a Tamiya 1/35 Mk II carrier model, there are a a set of them in the back left corner of the hull in the instructions.
(The Verlinden 1/15 model doesn't have them).
Just for those who don't know LP carriers:
The squat box holds the cooker which is a Coleman type in a cylindrical tin.
The open frame in front holds a wooden ammo box for 1248 rounds of boxed 0.303 and the clips at the back hold 4 Vickers ammo boxes on end. (not bags as Nigel calls them)
The big ammo box is 1200 long and carried two rounds of 3.7" AA as Lynn says. They are virtually the same size as the carrier kit box, and I have seen pics of them used across the front of Kiwi carriers in Italy.
Post war many Kiwi LP2A were converted to Support weapons roles, and the five big bins at the back were replaced by a 3.7" AA box on the shelf.
Rob
ps two more sleeps and off to the UK!!!
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