1937 pattern web equipment

Front and rear views of a soldier of the Royal Welch Fusiliers with 1937 pattern web equipment, Normandy, August 1944

1937 pattern web equipment (also known as '37 webbing'), officially known as "Equipment, Web 1937" and "Pattern 1937 Equipment"[1] was the British military load-carrying equipment used during the Second World War. It replaced the 1908 pattern and 1925 pattern—on which it was based—and was standard issue for British and Commonwealth troops from its introduction in 1937, throughout World War II, and in the post-war period until it was superseded by 1958 pattern web equipment. It remained in limited use with Territorial Army and other second-line troops until the mid to late 1970s.[2][3] Official use of the webbing in Community Cadet Forces and the Combined Cadet Force persisted into the 1980s.[4]

  1. ^ Bull 2016, p. 115.
  2. ^ "Webbing, 1937 pattern (Skeleton Order)". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Pattern 1937 Web Equipment". karkeeweb.com. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
  4. ^ Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) (1982). Army Code No. 71295, Cadet Training Manual (CCF Army Sections).