Pattern '37 Bren Mag pouches

[Ed Storey]

Keyan:

Are you currently in the military? If not, then please do us all a favour and stop signing your posts with your re-enactment rank.

Your attempt to explain terminology from a 'Bren Gunner's perspective' only muddies the water and is I suspect based on re-enacter information and not facts from 70 years ago. Your 'given common names' are not correct and nor are we 'both correct' as you state, but far from it. You are in fact incorrect in using made up names in order attempt to give a name to a piece of web equipment that already has an established official name, that being Utility Pouches.

If you wish to compare web equipment to ladies undergarments or make up pet names for the pieces then go ahead and enjoy yourself, just stop trying to convince everyone else that these names are correct or somehow fit into their use during the Second World War.

Have a look at a copy of the Fitting Instructions for 1937 Pattern Web Equipment and you will learn not only the correct terminolgy for the individual pieces, but also how they were to be used.