Hallo,
I have never seen these ammunition vests at the battle field. Nor someone who is
walking with this vest. The oldest photo I have is from spring1915. I think the vest was very impractical. On film I saw 2 or 4 cartridges carried from the wooden boxes to the limber. The limber had a matrix of cartridge baskets.
On the 1st WW battle field the 18 pdr cartridges were carried by using the ribbons on the clips, fixed on the bottom of the shell casing. Also 4 were fixed on the back of the carrier. see: (sorry, I hope the reference is working this way)
http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/nl/contributions/15572/attachments/164609?layout=0
Questions:
1 Do anyone have a photo of these vests in use at the front?
2 I am looking for documentatiom to improve my research on this subjet.
When you know someone who wants to sell such a vest (13 & 18 or 25 Pdr), please let me know mail
koos.rauws@gmail.com I will be very thankfull!
With kind regards,
Jac. E. Rauws
Berg en Dal
Nederland