There are many commanders’ webbings dating back to the First World War. The 1908 Pattern Web Infantry Equipment was an innovative type of webbing equipment adopted by the British Army before World War I. During the Second Boer War of 1899–1902, the standard British Army set of personal equipment, comprising a belt, haversack and ammunition pouches, was the leather Slade-Wallace Equipment, which had been introduced in 1888. It proved unsuitable for holding modern ammunition, which was carried in stripper clips instead of as individual rounds, and its buffalo-hide…