British Railway Battalion Uniform And Equipment

Sold Stock #33032 | Sold Feb 12 2014

WAR HORSE (2011)

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A British infantryman’s uniform worn in the Steven Spielberg Oscar-nominated wartime drama War Horse. Raising the young colt Joey from a young age, Albert (Jeremy Irvine) is forced to part with the horse at the start of the First World War. The film tells the remarkable story of their reunion on the battlefields of France.
This uniform and others like it can be seen in the flash forward to 1918 to find that Albert has fulfilled his promise and enlisted to find his beloved horse Joey, with these uniforms worn by the soldiers in the British trenches trying to coax Joey toward them while he is trapped in the wire. The base uniform consists of a P1902 jacket with 17th Railway Battalion patches at the shoulders, a pair of trousers, woollen putties and a pair of ammunition boots. In addition it also features a set of P1908 equipment consisting of a belt, cross straps, ammunition pouches, pick helve carrier, entrenching tool cover, small pack with groundsheet and water bottle with carrier, as well as a Mk1 steel helmet.

The small pack is foam-filled to prevent injury during filming, while ammunition pouches are filled with solid plastic wedges made to the same size as five-round .303 strip clips. The entire costume is in an overall good production-distressed condition, with five missing buttons down the jacket's front and mud still on various garments from its time on the wet sets.

This is a unique opportunity to own a part of the movie, and due to the nature of the costumes used in the film and their ability to be reused in future films, we have an incredibly limited inventory and are unlikely to acquire such an outstanding collection of this standard again.

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