{"id":44073,"date":"2014-08-03T09:47:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T15:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/03\/a-survey-of-soldiers-kits.html"},"modified":"2014-08-03T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T22:34:42","slug":"a-survey-of-soldiers-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/03\/a-survey-of-soldiers-kits.html","title":{"rendered":"A survey of soldiers&#39; kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">What troops (British troops, in this case) have carried around with them over the last <del>century<\/del> millennium. \u00a0Very cool.<\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; clear: both;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/qA5pkNPgOdazvO3AeN54aBJvGIuv05w0SzJpj8m3NyurSK94C49Z0fZWV7UoGHrxLWDwJ2KjX605qSCoTinZq9cguaEiWcCbdVv6IuCyYaIH6NflBNqG6NA=w506-h303-p\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/history\/world-war-one\/11006139\/Inventories-of-war-soldiers-kit-from-1066-to-2014.html?frame=2994148\">Inventories of war: soldiers&#8217; kit from 1066 to 2014<\/a><br \/>\nFrom the crude weaponry and armour of the Battle of Hastings, to the high-tech kit of modern conflict, a new photographic survey explores the personal equipment carried by the common British soldier through the past 1,000 years<\/p>\n<p class=\"gpb-links\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a class=\"gpb-linkback\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/bSvymx2mKxo\" target=\"_new\">View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What troops (British troops, in this case) have carried around with them over the last century millennium. \u00a0Very cool. 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