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List of Changes & Official Documentation

Quite simply, there are none, this pattern having a status of NIV (Not In Vocabulary) until after the Armistice. However, a Priced Vocabulary list does exist that may refer to this design. Ordinarily, Private Purchase equipment for officers would not appear, but with so many men being commissioned as officers, it can be speculated that Ordnance Stores expected a volume of unknown kit to be handed in by men, who were not professional soldiers and only wished for a speedy return to “civvy street”. As a consequence, many might wish to hand-in their accoutrements and recover their outlay, for which official Vocabulary pricing would have been necessary. All that can be added are Secondary Sources, i.e. advertisements from Military Outfitters, those from Hazell & Co. here being particularly detailed.

 

This documentation was discovered by veteran Karkee Web Research Team member Carl Woods, in the 1920 Price List of Emergency Stores. This unusual document was an addendum to the PVOS (Priced Vocabulary of Stores), and amounted to a post-war "tidying-up" of the PVOS, adding many (but certainly not all!) of the Great War NIV items to the priced stores lists.

 

© R.J. Dennis February 2009