While I am at home alone today thought I would take a couple of pics of this rare and interesting piece of kit. It was designed to replace the larger and heavier MK3 for use in the Jungle.
For those of you who dont know what an aiming lamp is, they are designed to be used for resetting your arcs of fire for the bren or vickers at night, so you knew how far to the left or right you could fire without shooting the back of your mate in the next foxholes head off, you would usually put a stick in the ground either side so at night you knew where you were shooting but If you happened to knock one over you would just simply pulled a piece of string that was attached to the lamp and you could reset everything.
Anyway heres the pics....
First the whole kit... Pouch, lamp, spare battery box and string and the second shot shows the bayonet boss attachment on the back of the lamp
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