British 1960s Cellular Jungle Green Shirt
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- A video covering a British cellular shirt introduced around 1959 and issued through to at least the 1980s.
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Hi, this shirt was very similar to the JG Bush Jacket. Unfortunately, these breathable material uniforms were issued during National Service to personnel serving in the Far East and they initially looked like shit on the first parades and troops were told to “Smarten Up !” So they got the Dhoby Wallas to starch and press the new issue to make them pleasant for the eyes of the RSM. Once these cellular garments had starch in them, the holes filled up and they could no longer function as designed! When troops went jungle bashing or served on the border in HK their skin got dhoby rush etc and they tried to keep one old uniform in no-starch mode for pure survival mode. In twenty years service I never received MOD kit that was 100% fit for purpose. All my good kit was “Acquired”! Even kit that we got to try out from the MOD was poorly designed in that it was too noisy for night work, too restrictive for parachuting, boots were a joke as were the socks. Scrounging was our best hope. Good video, well presented. I just wish that we had the gear I use now for hunting and fishing in the fifties, sixties and seventies. Cheers mate. Harera
We called these OG shirts , and were much sought after when I served in the RM during the 70s and 80s, they were used as 'in the field 'shirts and far more comfortable than the issued hairy shirt .
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I remember getting 2 of the shirts from a lad from my class he new I was in the A.C.F his dad had just finished 21 years in the R.E.M.E as well as the shirts I was given a load of other British Army items which you just could not get hold of in the late 70s namely 1979 when I was given the shirts and other kit the shirts were a lot more comfy than the issue hairy shirts.
Thanks for a really interesting channel look forward to your next release!
Regards Nick
I have a similar shirt, issued to my father during Malaya emergency deployment 1958-60 (1Fld Bty RAA). It differs slightly from this example, but the material appears the same.
No insignia on his shirt at all, only some push studs on the arm for rank. I presume no rank was warn during operations.
The buttons down the front are exposed, and there is less blousing, presumably, the shirt was expected to be worn un-tucked.
I had one much preferable to a shirt kf itchy
Same here - remember buying them from Silvermans, as an alternative to the KF.
Although it’s difficult to tell a shirt from a bush jacket modified into a shirt in period photos, there seems to be a surprising number of these evident in use by the Australian army in the first half of the Vietnam War.
Not issued if they were. The Aussie shirts were pretty awful, actually. I had British issued cellular shirts and bush jackets, and they were great. My old man was issued this in his tropical issue for Hong Kong in 1971.
@@davesherry5384 what are you on about? Aussie JG’s are FANTASTIC!
Jungle Green Shirt? I wore this shirt posted out in Belize and on exercise in Kenya. in the 70s. The army referred to this shirt as "Olive Drab".
Were these ever made with underarm vents? The WPG reproduction (which I absolutely love to wear) has small openings at the arm pits for airflow.
Pretty sure wpg is all ww2 patterns
@@Palaemon907 I have the bush jackets as well which are a WWII pattern. The shirts are supposed to be of the 1960s type. At least they sell them as “cold war” period.
Which ones are those?
Great video my friend....keep them coming
That's a very long tail!...
Good vid as usual, Simon.
Nice shirt(s). I seem to recall some people would try and get away with wearing them in Europe.
Airtex JG chino pattern was being worn by the Tatmadaw (Burmese Army) in the 2000s.
Was the Aertex shirt worn concurrently with the poplin jungle shirt?
This cellular shirt was worn during the same time frame as the US tropical combat uniform, yes.
Were these shirts worn during the Falklands war?
I've seen some photos of men wearing them aboard ship when passing through the tropics on their way down south.
How come the guy in the thumbnail is carryinb an M16?
British forces were issued M16s, especially during jungle training, but also in Northern Ireland , I carried one in South Armagh in 1986.
@@neilmaston5116 Really, I thought they used the SLR. Every day is a school day. Thanks.
The SLR was the standard rifle. The British Army issued what they referred to as AR-15s, essentially USAF spec M16s, beginning with the Indonesia Borneo confrontation in the mid 1960s, in limited numbers. These original rifles procured in the 1960s went on to be issued in many other situations through the rest of the Cold War, eventually being supplemented by the M16A1.
Yes, the SLR was the standard issue weapon, however in Northern Ireland a 8 man section would be split into two four man teams or Bricks, with the LMG or GPMG in one 4 man team, the addition of the M16 gave the other 4 man team a full auto option 👍, obviously only in the border areas as full auto wasn't allowed in built up areas.
Some close ups would have been nice 🙂
Funny quirky channel.