PATTERN '49' BATTLEDRESS, 1955

Post War issue of battledress known as Pattern 49, originally adopted by the British Army in 1949.

Belonging to Mr I.W.Mallory who served in the Royal Artillery.

Mr Mallory kindly donated it to the museum in 2008.

Your comments:

• The trousers are not 1949 Pattern as they have no belt loops (unless they have been removed)
  .......... Dave Wallis, Burnham on Crouch, Essex, 2nd of May 2010
  
  

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