Guards Division   

A World War One Living History Organization

Equipment

“Full Marching Order” According to the Field Service Pocket Book of 1914

Clothing and other items worn by the soldier:

• Boots, ankle, pair
• Braces
• Cap, Service Dress
• Disc, identity, with cord
• Drawers woolen, pair
• Jacket, Service Dress, and metal titles, with field dressing
• Knife, clasp, with marlin spike and tin opener
• Pay book (in right breast pocket of S.D., jacket)
• Puttees, pair
• Shirt
• Socks, pair
• Trousers, Service Dress
• Waistcoat, cardigan

Arms:

• Rifle, with oil bottle, pull through, and sling
• Bayonet, and scabbard

Ammunition:

• Cartridges, S.A. Ball .303 in, 150 rounds

Tools:

• Implement, entrenching, Pattern 1908, and carriers

Accoutrements:

• Water bottle, Pattern 1908 web equipment, with knife, fork and spoon in haversack

Articles carried in the pack:

• Cap, comforter
• Holdall, containing laces, tooth brush, razor and case, shaving brush and comb
• Greatcoat with metal titles
• Housewife (i.e. sewing kit)
• Socks, worsted
• Soap
• Towel, hand

Rations and water:

• Bread
• Cheese
• Iron ration, biscuit, preserved meat, tea, sugar, salt, cheese, meat extract cubes

• Water, two pints

Other:

• Canvas “Frock” Coat
• Canvas Shoes
• Canvas Trousers
• Dress “Tweed” Trousers
• Dress Tunic
• Guards Bearskin with Regimental Plume (Stored for duration of the war)

Marking Clothing:

    Unit Initials, Regimental Number, Month and Year of Issue

Example:

    G.G.

    20794

    7/14

The following is the list of the winter clothing and equipment issued to British troops during the war.  Copied from the Field Service Pocket Book 1914.