BRITISH ARMY MURPHY A41 No2, 1960's

The Murphy A41 No 2 was replaced by the Number 3 and then the Racal R351 Manpack.

Donated by the R.E.M.E. Museum

Your comments:

• Thanks for nothing, A41. You gave me a lifetime of back pain.
  .......... Christopher Smith, Harrogate, UK, 4th of August 2025
  
  
• I was a mobile fire controller (MFC) in the mortar troop of 40 Commando Royal Marines (1965-67). As one of the two corporals in a mortar section attached to a Company we would carry the A41 radio when out on patrols with either a troop or a section when we were over in Borneo (Sarawak) during the confrontation with the Indonesians.
  Along with the fully operational set we would also carry a spare battery.
  These were on top of our spare water bottle, three or five days rations, our sleeping kit and two small cardboard boxes of spare Armalite rounds.
  All of this being packed into a Bergen style rucksack.
  Besides the rucksack we also had on our fighting order, carrying two ammo pouches, each with two full magazines, two water bottles a poncho and our trusty gollick (machete) and with us carrying our rifle "at the ready" we were ready for anything!
  As the MFC's we took it in turn when a patrol was going out giving us some respite.