Shell Dressing, British, SOUTHALLS LTD., August 1944
€45.00
Tax included
Genuine WWII British shell dressing, or standard issue first-aid packet, often seen attached to the helmet net.
Manufactured by SOUTHALLS (BIRMINGHAM) LTD. in August 1944.
Also issued to US paratroopers of the 502nd PIR, 101st Airborne Division prior to the jumps in Normandy and Holland (see Michel De Trez's books, Carentan vol. 2, p. 254 and D-Day Minus, Sept. 44).
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