British WWII Era Commando P42 Bergen Rucksack Hand Select:No Extremely scarce and very few

Extremely scarce and very few available we believe these are Australian issued

with binding on all exposed edges

Some items maybe undated or possibly post war usually the cross straps

or possibly from original manufacture

British WWII Era Commando P42 Bergen Rucksack Hand Select:No Extremely scarce and very fewOriginal Item: Just two days after the end of the Dunkirk evacuation in June of 1940, the British Commandos were created, after a request from Winston Churchill to form an elite butcher and bolt raiding force to generate a reign of terror down the enemy coast. It soon became apparent that such an outfit would need load bearing equipment that would support long range independent operation, in other words, large capacity, versatile design, and rugged