canvas pouch Id required please

[Alan 13~7]

Help me out here guys? I'm looking for an Id on this little canvas pouch thought it at first it to be a British army S6 respirator pouch but not so sure now, cant find it on google images except Delta0one posted one on photo Bucket, on a belt with some other stuff I have no idea exactly what it is Now.

I use it for my SAT & have another just like it full of spanners & the likes can anybody please help? It's doin my nut in now.

Obviously meant for webbing as all the pictures I can find of it, it's attached to webbing, but for what purpose & called what exactly & how was it supposed to be attach? & to what?

 

[decorum]

It's one half of a set of kidney pouches ~ likely British Army 58 Pattern (though other countries used/based theirs on the 58's)

 

[Wildgoose]

Yep, half a set of 58 pattern kidney pouches. The belt goes through the bottom loop and the yoke strap through the higher fixing. They were designed to be quick release, you pulled a side strap and the fixings on the back undone allowing it to fall.
I have a packing list somewhere, towel, socks, talc, soap all carried on the belt.

 

[Madriverrob]

Plus one for 58 pattern kidney pouch , I remember they used to shrink when wet so you couldn't get your mess tins in or out !

 

[Alan 13~7]

cheers gents, so an Ammo Pouch? I had found this "Canvas Ammunition Magazine Baghdad Iraq Supplies Soldier Military" looks most like it except mine are single & show no signs of ever being joined at the hip they are however exactly the same (left & right) & don't look like they have been cut apart?

but apart from that everything else fits.

expertly separated & refinished then? (self praise) I vaguely remember doing the surgery Now! it was around 30 years ago 58 pattern kidney pouches. thanks lads.....

 

[tombear]

It's a known mod' although they sometimes added a second closure.

http://www.karkeeweb.com/patterns/1958/components/component_np_local.html

ATB

Tom

 

[Polecatsteve]

I have a 58pattern webbing set. Used to use it for running with weights in it.....do not go near it for regular outdoor use. There's a reason heavy cotton isn't used anymore. When wet it stays sodden for days. Kid you not. Nothing will stay dry in it, unless you don't mind, like for pots etc.

Also when the "tabs" get wet they swell and don't close easy / open.

I still use the belt randomly in the garden for stuff. Just my 2 cents mate.

 

[Alan 13~7]

Been using one half of a kidney pouch now for a very long time mostly as a secondary bag in my S10 so getting wet has not yet been an issue but fair doos I can see your point esp with the webbing set.

 

[Jaeger]

Aye Up,

+ 1 to polecatsteve and madriverrob - but not an issue if like Alan 13-7 you use the '58 as an inner pouch - but hence my conversion to the Swiss rubber-ised Cordura version so that I can use them as an outer pouch/satchel.

 

[JamPan]

Looks a bit like the one in the gift it on thread right now.b