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20.01.2022 The Field Cooker in a Winter Billet Behind the Somme, c1917. Courtesy Federation University Historical Collection.

20.01.2022 Poor quality sheepskin vests compared to the Australian design. The one on the right may well be a "stinker".

13.01.2022 RABBIT-SKIN JACKETS. (1914, October 22). Echuca and Moama Advertiser and Farmers' Gazette (Vic. : 1914 )

13.01.2022 For those who wondered if the Light Horsemen received sheepskin vests. It is assumed that as the vests were stored in Egypt during the summer of 1915-16 many were left behind and issued to the Light horsemen after the bulk had been sent to the Western Front for the winter of 1916-17. Below is a record of what could be one of the very few ever to be returned to Australia.

11.01.2022 No title. (1914, October 17). Avoca Free Press and Farmers' and Miners' Journal (Vic. : 1914 - 1918)

08.01.2022 Last of the stinkers and first of the leather jerkins?

07.01.2022 The soldier is wearing what was known as a "stinker". Poorly tanned goatskins.

06.01.2022 A British soldier mounted on a donkey talking to Italian residents outside their house. Note a sheepskin coat worn over his uniform. Credit : IWM.

05.01.2022 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 19th Brigade, 6th and 27th Division, Bois Grenier Sector, March-June 1915. Company Sergeant-Major James Henderson in furs. Credit : IWM.

03.01.2022 The photograph was taken in December 1916, of an artillery horse used for transporting ammunition to the guns and its unidentified Australian driver on a duckbo...ard track between Mametz and Montauban, on the Western Front. The military used horses in WW1 mainly for logistical support; they were better than mechanized vehicles at traveling through deep mud and over rough terrain. Horses were used for reconnaissance and for carrying messengers well as for pulling artillery, ambulances, and supply wagons. The presence of horses often increased morale among the soldiers at the front. The value of horses and the increasing difficulty of replacing them were such that by 1917, some troops were told that the loss of a horse was of greater tactical concern than the loss of a human soldier. By the end of the war, even the well-supplied US Army was short of horses. Lest We Forget. Photograph came from the Australian War Memorial. Image file number AWM E00002. Most of the information came from Wikipedia.

03.01.2022 One of the first issues of the sheepskin vest was to the Australian nurses. Their design allowed them to work and stay warm at the sametime as their arms were free unlike the thick fur coats pictured.

03.01.2022 An Australian soldier wearing an animal hide jerkin and rubber thigh boots, giving a German prisoner a cigarette at Montauban in December 1916. Credit : AWM.

03.01.2022 Warm as toast in their sheepskin vests.

01.01.2022 A French sapper with a gas mask and a 'chasuble' in sheep skin. "The equivalent to the British leather jerkins. The Portuguese also wore something similar to th...is French model, but shorter. It was called a pelico (based on a sheep herder's vest of the same name), and although good for the cold it was like a 5 star hotel for lice, as I'm sure this French soldier soon found out for himself." (Text by Rui Manuel Candeias) (Photo source - Gallica (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) (Color by Jean-Marie Gillet from France) https://www.facebook.com/colors.of.the.past/?fref=nf