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Plausible but nope. Maybe this helps put it into context. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/App0712b.jpg[/img]

I was just trying give the younger ones a chance before you got in from work. You're certainly in the right area.

I thought you were going to get warm, but nope

Sounds plausible but nope.

Nope, I think you picked up on a previous answer about getting warm, but it was the other bit that was warm.

Nope, but getting warm

Getting warm

Army latrines? Yes you are leaning against an open door here, but afraid it is some other application.

Yes I think that's a pretty good judgement.

Size isn't everything, but I think NOS is pretty much correct.

Looks a bit that way, tiger shoot & all that, but nope.

What do you mean by intelligence, Neil? Anyway good to see you back & joining in again.

If it helps, it's to do with customs prevailing in the Navy in 1938.

If it helps, it wouldn't be Section K anyway & why aren't you at work? It's not Christmas yet!

Well done for being first man in. Probably not Nope Not a chair & that's rather hurtful thinking I would sneaky enough to turn an image upside down to throw you off the trail. Actually it is the right way up. Ah well you got me there, I don't actually know the part number, just wondered if anyone did

We were in the lower part of Upper Wield. On the Medstead to Upper Wield road, just where you go past the farm on the left then it curves left & drops down. Then there is a T junction with the road from Lower Wield coming in on the right. There was a sign post on the left which was outside our bungalow. Problem was that we seemed to be the first point of contact for people who were lost. Some of the roads signs were not helpful, some would indicate Upper/Lower Wield some would just say Wield. As you know there was a bit of a seperation from the two bits. I think the church was in Upper, but I never went there. The pub was between the two, we went in there once but there was a snotty attitude that you're not a regular & must be a visitor. So never bothered again, so I didn't become a regular - triumph in business marketing.

Yes OK pretty well got it Richard It is in fact a "Stool, Straight" I assume is for bathroom use, but I don't suppose you could quite see the cork top from this angle. It was indeed used by the RAF as well as the Army. The NSN is 7105-99-942-5741 which gives the RAF Vocab as 21B 1958. Together with a VAOS of KA 17103, most Section K is now obsolete. As you may know K is a funny old Section with such things as bedsteads, gymnasium equipment, furniture, crockery, galvanised buckets & ecclesiastical nicknacks. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/DSCF6826.jpg[/img]

The view was that gas masks for animals were pretty hopeless & gas injury being dose related meant horses may survive. Mustard gas works by direct contact, so the hoof gives some protection, eye fringes helped, positioning animal on high ground was better than copses where gas could build up or hidding in woodland or making screens from tarpaulins against the expected direction of attack. Fodder was the problem, only the top layers need be discarded & if blister gas was used the fodder should not be used for a week. Although not harmful after this time the horse may reject it on taste grounds & goodness knows here the two we have seem fussy about eating anything that is not up to expectation. Mustard gas was different, water & forage should be discarded. I don't know about expendability, goodness know the troops were considered expendable. But I think horses were valued for their off road capabilities & even on roads & tracks at night time the horses night vision being superior to the drivers of MT seemed to be more reliable. It always struck me curious that there is such fascination for the mechanised German war machine. Yet in WW2 much of the transport was not MT, but horsedrawn, I believe 1.1 million horses served as transport. Incidentally Winchester has a war memorial to the effort of horses in warfare, in the form of a drinking trough for horses. I think it is now a flower bed. PS I used to live in Wield before I moved here!

Nope, but getting warm Well you're a disappointment! The VAOS is Section K, so you are saying it is Army then? Which is correct. But it was also used by another Service.

Nope none of these Well Richard is on the right trail even with just that, but ok then http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Dscf6822c.jpg[/img]

Charcoal I imagine. Large animals were not much effected by nose & tear gases. They were not to be clipped as this provided some protection, leg bandages were to be employed. The weak point in the fighting unit was the rider & if he survived then the horse was to be gently led away to a safe area. Manuals generally indicate that there was no satisfactory gas mask for horses or mules. All that could be done was to keep them up wind of gas, stabled in barns & wait for it to blow over. But by WW2 such masks were available & looking much more efficient than the nose bag version seen above. In fact if you go to Sabre Sales, Nick still has unissued WW2 gas mask bags for mule & horse.

or "Horse Flu" http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/imag0254.jpg[/img]

Who used this & what was it for? For bonus points the part number of the arm of service or the NSN! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/App0712a.jpg[/img]

Who used this & what was it for? For bonus points the part number of the arm of service or the NSN! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v684/fv1620/Dscf6822b.jpg[/img]

A good idea but nope. The table shown is not actually from a Navy publication, but from another Government department, oh sorry we've got to call it an 'agency' now. (Strange how Ministries became Departments & now they are Agencies :dunno:)