No Signals Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Title says it all, was there a standard mesh size for WW2 British camo nets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Notes on concealment and camouflage . Military Training Pamphlet No.26 1939 lists materials suitable for camouflage. Netting - Twine (double string), square mesh Netting - Wire, generally 3-in. mesh No mention of size for twine netting. Although for 3 in. mortars "shrimp net" was to be used. 100yd rolls of canvas strips were available in 2 in. & 3 in. widths in 4 shades to be tied into the netting. This was based on 2 in for 14' x 14' & 3 in. for larger nets. Camouflage. Military Training Pamphlet No.46 Part 6: Notes on screens 1941 talks about portable screens for snipers & bren gun teams using 2 in. open-mesh fish net. Nothing about bigger nets. Although this isn't wartime Concealment in the Field 1957 list 40 nets of various kinds & they are all 3 in. mesh with 2 in. Hessian strips of various colours tied in various configurations. There was a thread a few years ago on this question & I remember contributing to it. But I have been unable to find it on search. I have another book somewhere that might mention it but can't find it at present. I would have imagined a 2 in. mesh for anything but small areas would make it unnecessarily heavy & have been an uneconomic use of twine compared with 3 in. I could find no mention of Hessian strips in the WW2 booklets, it was canvas strips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Signals Posted December 30, 2014 Author Share Posted December 30, 2014 Thanks for that very helpful reply Clive. All I needed and more! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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