When was C/Broad Arrow Introduced?

[Ed Storey]

Militia Order 213 from 1907 is the documentation used to substantiate the date in which the C Broad Arrow was introduced. I own the 1913 Pattern Entrenching Tool/Water Bottle Carrier and as per military labeling practices, the 1913 stamp is the the year of manufacture and not the contract year or pattern year.

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If you look at SWW 1937 Pattern Web, you can find Canadian dated manufactured items with stamps from 1940 onwards which obviously are not the pattern year. Attached is a photograph of a 1910 dated Oliver Dismounted 1898 Pattern leather Waistbelt with a C Broad Arrow stamp.

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