NAM.2000-04-98-1

1939 Pattern Leather Equipment & 1942 Battle Jerkin, 1942-1944. Watercolour by Mike Chappell, 2000 (c); the two full length and one half-length figures shown are: Company Sergeant Major, 31st Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles, Northern Ireland, 1942; Corporal, No 2 Commando, Yugoslavia, 1944; Corporal, 2nd Bn, East Yorkshire Regiment, 2nd Division, Normandy, 6 June 1944; the original for the illustration of plate E in ‘British Infantry Equipments (2) 1908-2000’ Osprey (revised edition), by Mike Chappell, 2000 (c).

World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945), World War Two, Eastern Front (1941-1945), World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945)