C029494 RCAF P37 WEB BELT.

BACKGROUND: At the beginning of September 1939, the Canadian soldier looked remarkably like his counter part from 1918, wearing the 1914 18 pattern khaki service dress and the 1908 pattern web equipment. It was in September 1939 that the Canadian Army officially adopted the battle dress that had just been approved for use by the British in March 1939 and the first new uniforms arrived the last week of October. At first, Canadian troops embarking to Great Britain, were completely clothed in Canadian made battledress and upon arrival were then issued British steel helmets and modern 1937 pattern webbing. Canadian individual equipment was copied directly from the British 1937 pattern web equipment with manufacture starting at the beginning of 1940 and mass distribution began in October of the same year. The Canadian equipment differed its British equivalent by its yellower coloring and the brown paint used to cover the metal parts. The RCAF webbing was a light blue grey in color.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A blue grey webbed belt with to either of its ends, are crimped brass plates, each with three vertically arranged grommets and hooks to their upper and lower edges. These hooks are each fed into the small separations equally spaced along the top and bottom of the reverse of the belt, adjusting its length. The two folded over ends have fed through them, to one side, a brass hooked tab, and to the other, a brass catch assembly. Floating, vertical brass retainers are to either end as well. Near the center of the belt, roughly where the small of the back would be, and oriented upwards at inward leaning angles, are two extended, webbed canvas tabs terminating in brass buckles, for suspenders. The belt measures approximately 6cm x 89cm long, with a 1940 date stamped to the underside of the belt. A handwritten designation is also present.

GRADE ****                             PRICE $75.00

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