British & Australian Uniform & Equipment || Indonesian Confrontation, Borneo
Blog: (http://autoshowcaseproject.blogspot.com/) ASP Tactical Presents: British & Australian Uniform & Equipment during the Indonesian Confrontation in the 1960s, Borneo. This is presented by John, a reenactor of the Soviet 9th Guards. SUBSCRIBE @ MY CHANNEL: (http://www.youtube.com/gurilla47) FOLLOW ME ON GOOGLE+: (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ChrisButlerASP) TWITTER: (https://twitter.com/gurilla47) INSTAGRAM: (http://instagram.com/gurilla47#) Thanks for watching! Share this video! Sound off in the comments below! AND SUBSCRIBE HERE! (http://www.youtube.com/user/gurilla47?sub_confirmation=1) TAGS British, Australian, New Zealand, Uniform, equipment, Sterling, SMG, M3, Grease Gun, Indonesian War, Indonesian Conflict, Indonesian Confrontation, Borneo, Communist, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, Mark IV helmet, the jungle war, Ghurkha, Malayan, Malaysia, Indochina, Indo-China, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, war, Sukarno
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Bloody wrong
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he is incorrect about the grease guns operation
it doesnt fire from a closed bolt it fires from an open bolt and they were 32 round just like the sten
also saying the british used them is like saying the germans used the thompson.
yes they did but in such low numbers that its not even considered an ACTUAL weapon that the british used
hes not very knowledgeable with his equipment -
The Sten was and will always be the shittiest gun invented.
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I was in Borneo with British Army 63 / 66... this guy has no clue... we never carried any of that shit... grease gun my ass...we used Sterling Sub Machine gun 9mm... this video is stupid...idiotic!!
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now the British use a Thompson but never have i saw a British ww2 soldier with a grease gun
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owh the aust used the Owen ..
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thats the jap guy
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The M3 was not used during the Indonesian Confrontation. My grandfather was a Singaporean resistance fighter against the IJA during the Occupation and after the British regained control and the Konfrontasi started (That's what we called it here), he worked with the British in clearing out the Communist during the Malayan Emergency and the Borneo and Singapore Confrontation. The weapon used during these conflict are mostly the Sten Mk III and the Mk IV, the Jungle Carbine aka SMLE Mk.5 No.1, the Sterling, M1A1 Thompson, Bren and that's about it plus a few pistols such as the Webley and Hi-Power.
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Nothing here is Australian equipment!!!
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were was this event
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Ohhh ok
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Having worn 58 pattern webbing for real a few notes for you......
Ammo is stored in the pouches to the front and both pouches are positioned further to the sides of the main belt (so you are not lying on top of them in the prone position - the bum roll is for the poncho (and NBC Kit in Germany) it was not uncommon for a second to be added though that was not regulation
The pouches above the bum roll are called Kidney pouches and hold your mess tins (wrapped in your towel so they don't rattle) - Rations packed inside the mess tins the other Kidney pouch holds personal admin kit (Weapon cleaning kit, washing and shaving plus any other bits needed) - or a 24hr Rat Pack complete and personal admin kit moved to the other pouch
The Large Pack would hold clothing extra Ammo and rations and any thing that was not immediately needed in combat - your green maggot (sleeping bag) would be put on top of the two inner flaps, then the main flap placed over the sleeping bag and strapped down - the left had large pack pocket was where shit bags went after use when you didn't want to leave sign on the ground - the right hand one anything
At contact or when expecting contact the large pack would be cached in a forming up point and left for later and just the harness and pouches worn
There is a attachment point on the yoke between the shoulder blades for the haft of a pick axe or shovel, if you had a shovel the blade would be covered by a sandbag, if you had a pick axe the blade of the axe would be stowed in the two pockets on top of the bum roll and secured by the litter straps there - the small pocket on the side of the right hand pouch was originally for an Energa Rifle Grenade Launcher later on used for the Black Firing Attachment for the SLR (or Mars Bars) - on the left pouch there is a bayinet frog
The British Army were never equipped with M3 Grease Guns (as shown) it would have been either 303 Lee Enfield/Sten Gun or Bren Gun - later on SLR/Sterling/Bren or GPMG
Anzac's may have been seen with Owen SMG
Under the combat jacket (which I suspect in the Video is a US one not a British one) would have been worn the KS Shirt (hairy shirt) or Nothing in the Tropics with the Lightweight Jungle kit - also usually round the neck would have been worn a netting face veil
His Helmet would only be bare steel in a riot control situation, in combat it would have been covered with hessian and a scrim net - in the Tropic a Bush Hat was used
Boots would normally have been either hobnailed Ammo Boots and the canvas gaiter, later on DMS boots and the ankle puttee - there were very few jungle boots ever issued -
Do some proper research mate for fuck sake !!!
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utter bollocks
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i'm British and both my grandfathers and my great uncle served in the British army in ww2 and national service in the 50s and the grease gun was never used by British forces the only fully automatic weapons were the Bren gun LMG, thompson smg, and the sten gun smg. never any use of the grease gun
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A bit of a mess, the webbing only is known as "Patrol Order", for the Australian (Aust.) Army, if you included the pack it's "Marching Order", and for the Brits I believe it's "Battle Order". The soft hat was called officially (Aust. Army) "Hat - Utility" or "Bush Hat". SMG (or the WWII term Machine-Carbine) in addition to the Sterling, I believe in the 1950's (at least in Malaya) the Brits used the Aust. WWII Owen Gun (magazine attached on top / vertically) in lieu of their Sten, and the Aust. troops used the Owen Gun and the later F1 SMG (curved magazine, wooden stock, similar looking barrel to the Sterling) until they were replaced by the M16. Lastly, Aust. & Brit's at the time didn't where T-Shirts under their "Jungle Greens" they would have worn singlets, as T-Shirts weren't worn / brought into service in at least the Aust. Army until the early-mid 1990's when the first Aust. Pattern camouflage uniforms (Disruptive Pattern Combat Uniform or DPCU) were introduced, I'm not sure about when the Brits starting wearing them but it wasn't in this time period. Note I'm happy to defer to anyone who served there at the time as per some of the comments, regards.
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Bollocks
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Bloody hell mate.
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Who were those pretty ladies
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Australians were using Owen sub machine guns not grease guns
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