Original British WWI WWII P-1903 Five Pocket Leather Cavalry Bandolier

Original Item: Very Few Available. Designated "Bandoliers for Mounted Cavalry P-1903" these are quality brown leather bandoliers with five leather pockets each designed to carry two 5 round stripper clips of .303 caliber Ammunition. These were found in very good preserved condition in South Africa. Dates vary between WWI to WWII, no dates are post 1945. We cannot honor date choices. The 2nd Boer War is over, and the limitations and deficiencies of the Valise Equipment, Pattern 1888 are well known. Everyone agrees that a replacement is needed and the Mills Woven Cartridge Belt Company of London, England, is eager to step in with its latest web equipment. The War Office, though, has other ideas, and when the new equipment is chosen, it is still a leather equipment, rather than cotton webbing. This new equipment was the Bandolier Equipment, Pattern 1903. According to Albert Lethern, author of the M.E.Co.. Golden Jubilee book, the choice of leather over Mills’ web was made because of a mis