Danish Army Aluminium Field Bottle



M / 48, the Danish version of the British aluminum water Bottle, Patt.'44, capacity 1,2 l.




Hylster til feltflaske M / 48, an early version of the cover to the jar, similar to the British Patt. '44, and differed from it by a suspension system. Manufactured for Denmark by the British firm M.E.Co.


Later, the metal cover was replaced by plastic, green. Unlike the British model, the M / 48 cover was attached to the chassis exclusively with a chain















Royal Danish Army M48/76 Canteen


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Known as: Dansk Hærens Feltflaske M48/76 After the end of World War 2, Danmark organised her army after the years of Nazi occupation. The members of the Royal Danish Army were kitted with personal kit based on the British and U.S. webbing. As part of this personal kit, each member recieved also a water canteen similar to the Patt’44 canteen used by the British troops. 

They are referred to as the M/48 Canteen. In fact these early aluminium canteens, based on the U.S. M10 and which included the iconic cup nestled at the bottom of the flask, were made in England. Their carrier pouch Hylster til feltflaske M/48 , made of tough canvas, was produced in Britain by M.E.&Co, and differed from the British carrier pouch only in the way it was attached to the webbing. Eventually Danmark produced its own canteens, which differed from the the older ones in that they came with a plastic screw-on cap attached to the flask by a small chain. 

The cover changed little as well and are known as Feltflaskehylster M/59 These aluminium flasks remained in service until the late 1970’s when they were replaced by a plastic canteen, popularly known as the the Danish Cold War canteen. The plastic canteen is very similar to the aluminium flasks and the earlier version even had the screw-on cap attached to the body by means of a small chain. However the chain was later replaced by a plastic tab attached to the neck of the flask, similar to tabs on certain Western European and U.S. canteens. With the coming of the 1984 flektarn camouflage uniform, the canteen cover changed and was now known as Feltflaskehylster M/84. It was now made of rubberised plastic and closed with the ‘lift the dot’ U.S. method. It was attached to the personal webbing in the same method as the older canvas version, using straps instead of alice clips. A minor change in the cover was made in the later stages of its use when the ‘lift the dot’ method was replaced by velcro closure method. In 1996 this cover, which was rather flimsy and offered little protection to the flask, was replaced by the Feltflaskehylster M/96 which is still in use today. This cover is very similar to the molly canteen carrier used by British troops, differing only in the way it is attached to the webbing. The feltflaske in this collection is an olive drab undated late 1970’s early 1980’s canteen with screw-on cap attached to the body with a plastic tab. It has a volume of 1.2 litre. On the bottom it carries the words: FORSVARETS EJENDOM (Defence Property). It comes with an aluminium cup marked HMAK and dated 1983. Tha cup has folding butterfly style handles. The letters HMAK stand for Hærens Materielkommando (Army Materiel Command ) established in 1968 and disbanded in 2007. The cover has no markings whatsoever, except for the words ‘lift the dot’ on its studs. Date of acquisition: 25th April 2018 Place: Handewitt Schleswig-Holstein Deutchland

1 comment:

  1. MECo is "Mills Equipment Company". They made cotton webbing equipment but not aluminium. The '44 Patt waterbottles are possibly made by "MMS" (MMS made some of the '44 Patt mugs and also mess tins). I have a 1957 dated Danish M1948 waterbottle with the plastic cap. I thought it'd fit in a British '44 Patt mug but it doesn't. It fits tightly in the correct Danish mug (M1948?).

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