Webbing & Royal Navy Landing Parties

[karkee]

Presented below are 33 period photos of Royal Navy sailors and officers wearing Patterns 1908 and 1919 between 1920 and 1942. They have been collected from various sources over the years and are quite hard to find. I hope they will be of some interest to members of this forum!

1920 - Jaffa, Palestine - Pattern 1908




1926 - Wahnsien, China - Pattern 1919




1926 - Wahnsien, China - Pattern 1919




1926 - Wahnsien, China - Pattern 1908 & Pattern 1919




c1920's - China - Pattern 1908




c1929 - Jaffa, Palestine - Pattern 1908




1930 - Haifa, Palestine - Pattern 1908




c1930's - Palestine - Pattern 1908




c1936 - Palestine - Pattern 1908




N.D. - Palestine - Pattern 1919




c1936 - Palestine - Pattern 1908




1937 - Hong Kong, China - Pattern 1908




c1930's - Shanghai, China - Pattern 1908




1937 - China - Pattern 1908




1938 - Haifa, Palestine - Pattern 1908




c1930's - Suez Canal, Egypt - Pattern 1908 & Pattern 1919




c1938 - Palestine - Pattern 1908




N.D. - Pattern 1908 & Pattern 1919




N.D. - Pattern 1919




1939 - Britain - Pattern 1908




N.D. - Pattern 1908




N.D. - Pattern 1908




1939 - Canada (RCN) - Pattern 1908 & Pattern 1919




1940 - Bermuda - Pattern 1908




1940 - Britain - Pattern 1908




1940 - Britain - Pattern 1908




1941 - Canada (RCN) - Pattern 1919




N.D. - Canada (RCN) - Pattern 1919




1941 - Australia (RAN) - Pattern 1908




1941 - Australia (RAN) - Pattern 1908




1942 - Londonderry, Ireland - Pattern 1919




N.D. - Pattern 1908




N.D. - Possibly WWI

[Warspite]

Absolutely fantastic photos. Here's one of HMS Ceres (my RNR unit's predecessor) landing party wearing 19 pattern



Below is another interesting shot of the Royal Navy Coast Watch wearing 08 webbing with BD and caps. I'd love to put this one together for reenacting!



Ed

[karkee]

Hi Ed,

Great pictures, thank you so much for sharing them! Any Idea of the date or location of the first picture?

I notice both pictures show the navy Lewis Gun. Some of these were stripped down and given vertical foregrips early in the Second World War.

[Warspite]

I'm afraid no date or location, but. HMS Ceres spent most of the interwar years in the Mediterranean as part of the 3rd light cruiser squadron with the my guess it was taken somewhere like Malta or one of the Greek islands

[douglas2496]

Superb pictures, thanks for showing them.

[karkee]

Thanks for letting know Ed!

By the way, I like the asbestos on the Lewis gun slings in your your first picture. Talk about about lung cancer...

[jimpy]

Absolutely fantastic photos. Here's one of HMS Ceres (my RNR unit's predecessor) landing party wearing 19 pattern



Below is another interesting shot of the Royal Navy Coast Watch wearing 08 webbing with BD and caps. I'd love to put this one together for reenacting!



Ed

Hi all

Great photo's, love these sort of pic's, they show the "reality" as opposed to the "book".

As regards the one's posted by Ed, I make models in my spare time and I can just imagine the comments along the lines of "oh no, that didnt happen" etc if I was to do a model based on the last photo of the Naval Coast Watch group. Naval headdress, 08ptn W/E, BD with Naval pattern anklets, SMLE's and Lewis Guns.......Brain cells are ticking on this one!

Regards etc
Ian D

AKA: Jimpy

[harryamb2]

great pics,---Cossack v Altmark the navys here

[karkee]

Some more great shots of the Royal Navy on land in China...

1927-28 - Shanghai, China - Pattern 1919




1927-28 - Shanghai or Nanking, China - Pattern 1908 & Pattern 1919




1927-28 - Nanking, China - Pattern 1908 & Pattern 1919




1927-28 - Nanking, China - Pattern 1908 & Pattern 1919




1927-28 - Nanking, China - Pattern 1908 & Pattern 1919




1927-28 - Nanking, China - Pattern 1908 & Pattern 1919




1927-28 - Nanking, China - Pattern 1908 & Pattern 1919

[karkee]

Here's a great shot of ratings wearing pattern 1919 webbing and sun helmets with cap tallies...

1936-39 - Palestine - Pattern 1919