War Office
This Pattern had its origins in two requirements for lighter patterns of web equipment, one for temperate zones, the other tropical. The result appears to have been a convergence of these designs. In 1945, the course of the War changed, Germany collapsing more suddenly than was expected, leaving a war in the Far East. The newly designed pattern was then pressed into service for that campaign, which was envisaged as lasting until 1946. Pattern 1944 therefore became a 'theatre issue', for units serving in the Far East. It also doubled in the role of a 'unit specific' Pattern, being routinely worn by Airborne troops and the Gurkhas, often in temperate zones. All this makes Pattern 1944 W.E. rather different to other Patterns, before or since.
![Standing Orders ... for the Royal Regiment of Artillery. [Continued As] Standing Orders of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. [Continued As] Royal Artillery. Standing Orders and Instructions. [With] Ame]( https://distri.podiprint.com/imagenes/978/1/0/2/0/6/6/3/9781020663406_f_675x675.jpg "Standing Orders ... for the Royal Regiment of Artillery. [Continued As] Standing Orders of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. [Continued As] Royal Artillery. Standing Orders and Instructions. [With] Ame")
