Original British Victorian Officer’s Wire Embroidery Clad Cap in Tin named to Major M.S. Bell V.C. Royal Engineers British Militaria 5th Special Forces Group contracted

5th Special Forces Group contracted with Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian producers to make fatigues and other items such as boonie hats using tigerstripe fabric

with leaf "veins" engraved

The Type 30 bayonet (三十年式銃剣 sanjunen-shiki juken) was a bayonet designed for the Imperial Japanese Army to be used with the Arisaka Type 30 Rifle and was later used on the Type 38 and Type 99 rifles

The barrel jacket does not have the lug for a bayonet

and an intact "worm" clearing plug on the smaller end

Original British Victorian Officer’s Wire Embroidery Clad Cap in Tin named to Major M.S. Bell V.C. Royal Engineers British Militaria 5th Special Forces Group contractedOriginal Item: One of a Kind. Here we have an incredible late Victorian Era British short brimmed officer's cap, contained in a hat tin named to Major M. S. Bell V. C. of the Royal Engineers. He was a legendary soldier and incredible world traveler. It is said that he travelled 12,000 miles in generally unknown parts of Central Asia, China and the East. He had been awarded the Victoria Cross for Valour, and was in fact the first person of Australian