Highland Regiments footwear during the Great War

[Jacques]

Very interesting site, I hadn't realised the military had ever issued boot polish / dubbin. The site talks of its issue in WW2. But we certainly weren't issued with it by the 1970s we had to buy it ourselves.. Meanwhile there's a tin of cherry blossom not 3 feet from me.

We were still required to polish our buttons in the early 1980's and i can't recall being issued any Brasso either.