GERMAN WWII TROPICAL RUCKSACK.

The classic German rucksack with front flap closure, two large pockets on the exterior. Both shoulder straps in a tropical form of web, both are different sizes from each other but original to the rucksack. All of the fittings in tropical web. At first glance this would to be a standard German WWII tropical rucksack, there is one significant difference that makes it historically interesting. These rucksacks always had reinforcing not only on the outside of the upper part of the rucksack but on the inner side, this was to help the canvas outer withstand extreme weight of items carried. The inside section of webbing is from a piece of British captured webbing marked ‘ME Co 1938’ with broad arrow and can only be from quantities of captured British webbing at either Dunkirk or maybe early in the North African campaign. The only other items we have ever seen of British captured webbing being used have been in the construction tropical Y straps.

Code: 81848