Awww! I knew that. I thought you were referring to the quality of the photo. 
I missed this post. I really must try to stay awake.
Does the missus permit the whipping of the tail, or is it a test of how alert she is…I would have thought it more appropriate to ‘whip it’ in her absence? 
Pity there’s no Welsh goat in the photo. Who knows what side, or end, they eject from?
Well, if you’re very, very good, and eat all your porridge, nanny might allow you to stay up late.
Does the missus permit the whipping of the tail, or is it a test of how alert she is…
Alert?
We’re talking about a married woman here! Tail whipping is interest factor zero minus eleven trillion on her scale. Not like important stuff like handbags and shoes and whether their fat arses actually look fat in anything smaller than a circus tent. Which, upon pain of death, we always tell them look like a tight little peach, and just as yummy.
Do you know what constitutes foreplay for an Aussie husband ? Ask the missus “Are you awake?”. Although the more considerate husbands ask that before, rather than after, exercising their conjugal rights. Or is it the other way around? Who cares?
I would have thought it more appropriate to ‘whip it’ in her absence?
You are confusing lonely desperation wth appropriateness.
Women have sex to get married.
Men get married to have sex.
Only one gender is going to be perpetually disappointed by marriage.
Or have I said that before?
Yes, you have. You are sounding increasingly desperate. Come on you are letting the side down…get out there and get some before the Welsh have them all!
are we talking about women or sheep here
Women.
I’m not a Kiwi.
point taken
The British military mainly used the M-1917 and the wore caps or whatever you call them.
Errr… what? If you’re talking about the helmet, the M-1917 is a copy of the British Brodie helmet (the earliest ones were bought from the UK) as at the time the US entered the war they had effectively no modern equipment.
If I were you, I’d inform mysself before I would start posting nonsense.
the M-1917 was an American helmet, a copy of the British WW1 Brody helmet, though with a different liner.
The British Army wore at the beginning of WW2 the Mk2 helmet, which was replaced around the time of the Normandy invasion in some divisions by the Mk3 “Turtle” helmet.
As for soft caps, the officers kept on wearing the SD hat as with the old service dress uniform, while with the introduction of the P37 uniform the SD hat was replaced for other ranks first with the Field Service cap (side cap, though some units, like the Reconaissance Corps or the RTR kept their khaki resp. black berets ) and later, around 1943 with the General Service cap, also called Cap, Ridiculous, a large, unsightly beret made up out of three pieces of cloth. Scottish units kept their Glengarries resp. Tam O’Shanters. In the Middle East Pith Helmets and the Wolseley pattern solar topees were still worn. Indian troops wore their traditional headgear, like Sikh units their turban.
In the Far East, the solar topee was replaced by the slouch hat of Australian pattern.
Commado units liked to wear the Cap Comforter in the field, a woolen, knitted hose like a skiing cap.
Jan
A sidenote.
I read in a book by an Australian soldier who served in North Africa that some Australian soldiers in WWII sharpened part of the rim of their helmets. In desperate circumstances the helmet could be held in the hand and swung with the sharpened edge towards the enemy, and was used in action occasionally.
I’m not certain of my source, but I think it was The Sixpenny Soldier by Roland Griffiths-Marsh.
The first version of the WW1 Brody helmet had a sharp, stamped edge, but because the amount of injuries, the later versions of the helmet had a rolled edge of thin sheetmetal formed around the edge to make it blunt. the South African version of the Mk2 helmet (I have one in my collection) has three holes stamped into the rear of the brim to attach a cloth to protect the neck against the sun, similar to the one used by the French Foreign Legion with their Kepis.
Jan
Thanks for that.
I wouldn’t be surprised if WWI helmets were still in circulation in the Australian Army during WWII, being hangovers from the militia which initially was equipped after WWI with WWI equipment. Defence budgets were tight between the wars, so there may have been very little produced or bought in from overseas. I’m not deeply into militaria so it’s not something I have sources on.
I don’t know if Australia acquired or produced the first British pattern Brody helmet, or even any WWI helmets. Given that Australia went its own way and manufactured leather versions of the British webbing equipment, http://www.grantsmilitaria.com/militariaphotos/militaria_images.asp?key=8
it’s possible that it modified the helmets also. Conversely, this link refers to a WWI Australian helmet being made in England, so maybe we didn’t make any at all.
http://www.grantsmilitaria.com/militariaphotos/militaria_images.asp?key=193
If you haven’t already come across it, Grant’s site is a useful resource for Australian uniforms and equipment, such as WWI stuff here http://www.grantsmilitaria.com/militariaphotos/gallery_default.asp?x_countryPeople=Australian&z_countryPeople=%3D%2C’%2C’
Leather copies of the P37 equipment are, while being very rare today, also known from Britain as a stop gap measure after Dunkirk. I don’t know in how far they have been handed out to regular units, but AFAIK quite a few (like leather belts and Bren magazine pouches) were used by the homeguard until better webbing equipment came along. The reason is that for making webbing, one neeeds special equipment (looms etc.), but any cobbler can make leather equipment in his backyard shop.
Jan
Quite big lads weren’t they? Clearly re-enactors by the beer guts and double-chins on show
I buy and sell a bit of militaria now and then, and often come across some nice Germans helmets, French, and even American M1s, but never any British variety over here in France.
I have always wondered why we Brits used a helmet which had so little protection around the sides and back of the head/neck? They just don’t look like they are up to the job and I’m sure there must have been more head wounds/fatalities because of it. The British para helmets looks the safest of any WW2 British design.
Opinions?
The “Turtle” Brodies actually looked like they covered an adequate amount of the wearer’s head, unlike earlier variations of the helmet.
Even within the paratroopers there were guys who cared so little about their own protection that they insisted upon wearing their berets into combat instead of their helmets.
Hi these are fab pictures are there anymore?
Cheers
Thanks Soren
There are more in the book, but they would have to be scanned. Is there anything in particular that you would like to see? I will probably be pretty busy this week at work, but may be able to squeeze in a little time for some scans.
All the Best,
George