Crashed out during Guerilla Hunt, '52
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The Australian army could always find ways to stop you getting any, if you were out in a 'rest area'. If we weren't digging holes for someone else, we were looking for guerillas whom we never found. Judging by the bulge in the pocket on the left leg, there is a field dressing carried inside. That was a common place to stash it, easy to find and hard to lose. The theory normally worked by was that you used a wounded man's dressing first, because you may need your own shortly. The basic pouch is most likely full of rations for the day, the other would have spare ammunition just in case we broke the rules and actually found someone to shoot at. |