good ww2 leather jerkin? rare model, BEF?

Discussion in 'WW2 Militaria' started by Tommy4, Feb 20, 2016.

  1. Tommy4

    Tommy4 Junior Member

    Hello,

    I've found this leather jerkin a few years ago on a farm near De Panne

    The leather is still in good condition, but the inside is in bad condition.

    Is this a good ww2 british leather jerkin? Can it be an early war one, because it's found near De Panne?
    I think I can see the remainings of white stitching of the label in the left undercorner.
    The inside also has a typical color, like a fox...

    I've almost never seen the extra shoulder pads on a leather jerkin?? Just once I've seen them on an ww2 leather jerkin wit Royal Navy buttons on it, can it be royal navy?

    Does anyone recognises this kind of shoulder pads, and the meaning of it?

    (my English is not 100%, I'm Belgian)

    Thanks a lot
     

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  2. Harry Ree

    Harry Ree Very Senior Member

    It does look like a British military leather jerkin although the type I remember did not have the shoulder pads fitted.

    It would be conclusive that it was of British military origin if there was the WD logo fixed on the internal side of the garment (WD label or stencil accompanied by an arrow head stencilled vertically.)

    The type without shoulder pads was still in use by the RAF in the early 1950s...an asset to groundcrews who might be subject to inclement weather while servicing aircraft.

    I remember in the 1990s having the car hauled out of a drain ditch while in Burgundy....one rear drive wheel was hanging over the ditch,hence no traction to move forward.recovery man turned up from Auxerre and was wearing what I identified as a British military jerkin.
     
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  3. Ramiles

    Ramiles Researching 9th Lancers, 24th L and SRY

  4. jonheyworth

    jonheyworth Senior Member

    I’ve never seen one with those shoulder covers
     
  5. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    The original post was in 2016 !

    This one looks to be chrome-tanned rather than vegetable tanned leather which probably rules out wartime British. The leather type is characteristic of post-war Belgian. Did the manufacturer also try his luck with the civilian dustman market ?

    1950's deadstock belgian leather work jerkins -
     
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  6. ceolredmonger

    ceolredmonger Member

    Thanks Rich that is useful.
     

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