The following is the precise operational scale of issue of uniform and equipment to be worn and carried by a signalman of the Airborne Divisional Signals as per Operational Standing Orders dated May 1944.

Personal Uniform & Equipment :

• String Vest Next to skin
• Shirt
• Blouse
• Trousers AV (or breeches for DRs)
• Socks
• Boots
• Underpants(Summer Issue)
• Gaiters
• FaceVeil
• Helmet P type (Sanded and scrimmed)
• Smock (Pullover - spare string vest and one pair of socks in seat pocket)
• Gloves para (para only)
• Identity Discs
• Webbing belt
• 2 x Web straps
• Pouches basic (Bren or sten mags)
• Toggle rope
• Respirator
• Clasp knife and lanyard
• Water bottle (slung till 1st 24hr ration is consumed)
• Knifes fighting
• 1st Field Dressing (In correct trouser pocket)
• Two Shell Dressings (Right hand lower smock pocket)
• 1 Morphine Ampoule
• Water Sterilising Tablets
• Rifle or Sten and full mag - Revolver
• Mae West
• 2 x 36 Grenades
• 1 lb Plastic
• Emergency ration
• Gloves silk
• Mug

Attached too and contained within the Small Pack :

• Entrenching Tool
• Gas Cape
• Mess Tin
• 2 x 24 hr rations
• Knife, fork, spoon
• Change of underclothing
• Small Towel (½ or ¼ large towel)
• Holdall - Soap, comb, nail file, shaving brush, razor, razor blades (many as possible), shaving soap, toothbrush and paste, spare laces, small ball of string or twine, housewife, stick of candles.
• Dubbin and dubbin brush
• 2 Spare handkerchiefs
• Elastoplast
• Foot Powder
• Beret
• Pencil
• Few nails
• Safety pins
• Short length of special twine for tying Para Strop (for para only).
• AB 64 (ie, Pay Book)
• Spare Chocolates and cigarettes as space permits