This post is on the standard packs and kitbag, except for the last entry. I hope my photos might add something visual to anyone who is searching for good pictures. I realize my commentary may be pretty sparse on vital information so I recommend that you discover the wealth of knowledge online in the Karkee Web site.
Here's my P'08 Small Pack, an easy purchase because there are so many of them kicking around. By contrast a bayonet frog is practically unobtainable.
I bought this Large Pack, below, to fatten up my original artifact collection. WWIl large packs are essentially identical, an easy route to completing a set. The cross-straps are WWIl.
I see these kit bags, below, regularly. This supports my contention that items which gain a civilian life have a better chance at surviving. What is one going to do with a bayonet frog after all? It will be chucked out as useless sometime, just as my grandfather's ammo pouches almost went to the dump.
Here's a most interesting borrowed item. It is a VERY Large pack made out of two strips of 12" Mills webbing sewn together. Tho overall dimensions are 18" X 24" X 5". The side strip is woven to that dimension.
For me the most fascinating part of this pack is that the strap system is the 1916 Pattern Canadian yoke. The British rejected this but here it remains in service riveted into the doubling of the webbing. Since it is a very comfortable configuration it must have made a very serviceable pack. I wonder how many were made. This one certainly seems to be an official construction and not something jerry-rigged from parts. Does anyone have photos of something like this in use?
I've used the 1916 yoke shape myself in this 14" X 18" X 5" all leather pack. Sometimes I wonder if my brain is linked to a time machine.
So now the collection of P'08 gear is really starting to fill in.
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