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1914 Pattern Leather Equipment, 1915-1918. Watercolour by Mike Chappell, 2000 (c); the two full length and one half-length figures shown are: Sergeant, Rifle Brigade, 14th (Light) Division, Loos, 1915; Private, 1st/ 5th Bn, King’s Own, 55th (West Lancashire) Division, France, 1918; Sergeant, 54th Machine Gun Company,18th (Eastern) Division, Western Front, 1917; the original for the illustration of plate B in ‘British Infantry Equipments (2) 1908-2000’ Osprey (revised edition), by Mike Chappell, 2000 (c).

Loos, Battle of, 1915 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)