I recently bought a KD tunic -it arrived today- and as it had no buttons or other insignia I decided to attach a set of buttons and collar dogs for the Royal Army Service corps which I had also recently picked up, when I noticed it had a name tag inside the collar. This was for L.H.H. Brice, so I goggled his name and got a hit from the Imperial War museum collections.
"This haversack was found by Brice in a Japanese equipment store in Singapore at the end of the Second World War - presumably an item of captured British stores when the island fell to the Japanese in 1942. Brice served in a Transport Company of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps in the Kohima, Imphal, Palel, Tamu, Kabaw Valley & Kalewa areas between March and July 1945." Catalogue number
EQU 3797
So by a strange coincidence, he served with the Indian version of the RASC.
I'll post some pics when I have chance to catch some daylight, probably Saturday.
Probably going to be hard to get the correct Indian versions, so I will probably finish attaching the British versions for now and see if I can find them and update if and when they can be found.
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