Ammunition Vest

[Jordan Baker]

Thought I would post up a related item. Picked up a couple of them the other year when they were being disposed of.

I think it is Korean war era up into Vietnam and into the 90's. But I stand to be better educated by those that know more. The markings on it "Bag Ammunition, M2A1 D34951"

[Bob Carriere]

They are for 6 packs.....

Ebay as a few for sale..... St Albert surplus in Alta.

Bob C

[rob love]

I opened up a chest with the 60mm mortar and it's checklist EIS the other day, and it included 3 of those vests, along with one set of the shoulder pads.

[Koos Rauws]

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

[Koos Rauws]

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Her we see a demo with carriers walking.

[Ed Storey]

Here is an image of one of the statues on the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London that I photographed in the spring of 2009.

[Koos Rauws]

Originally Posted by Ed Storey

Here is an image of one of the statues on the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London that I photographed in the spring of 2009.

Nice photo Ed!
In march 2016 you find my four page article about “De munitiedrager en The Royal Artillery Memorial” in the magazine De Grote Oorlog of the WFA-Nederland, in Dutch, but with many photo’s!

Do you see clear what he is doing with the gasmask bag in alert position?