Swiss Army Mess Kit - Schweizer Armee Kochgeschirr M1910

Mess Kit Kidney Shape

Swiss Army Mess Kit 

M-1910

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Nomenclature

Schweizer Armee Kochgeschirr

Schweizer Gamelle M-1910 

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Schweizer Gamelle M-1910 

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Kidney Shape Mess Kits

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Description

Known as the cookware in Germany Gamelle , a word that comes from the French , and is used in Switzerland as a name , the soldier for heating food and also serves as eating utensils . This is supplemented today by a mostly locally procured plastic plate. In Germany it is sometimes referred to in the civilian sector as a lunch pail .

History / Summary

In the Swiss army mess tin was introduced as single cookware in 1882 and is still in use today. The weight is 450 g In Germany, the same cookware was introduced in the German armies as M1910 before the First World War and remained unchanged until today . There is an oval-shaped pot, which has almost kidney shape , with a plate insert and a cover.
The Gamelle is used not only in the military but also civil protection or civil defense .
Gamellen there in the Swiss army since 1875, and correct the term is, strictly speaking, only for the first version, a pot of tinned steel with lid and handle, which proved to be unsuitable and a few years later replaced by the "Single cookware 1882" was ,

In the troops but kept the name Gamelle. Only now she received the present form, but was slightly modified and improved on a regular basis. Through the use of aluminum, the weight has been reduced almost by half to 450 grams. The last facelift received Gamelle 1920 with an improved mounting of the bracket. Since then, has changed except the color change from black to green any more.

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