The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Two piece plate steel body armour. The armour consists of an upper chest piece, shaped to fit the wearer's neck and to accomodate the arms, and a lower groin protector. The lower armour is attached to the upper part with two leather straps, fastend to the interior. Both upper and lower armour are slightly concave, again to fit the wearer's body. The armour is covered with a khaki coloured drill material, and is stuffed with a hair-like material. The front of the armour has two sets of brown leather straps fastened horizontally, one above the other. These are fastened by four rivets to a piece of rectangular leather, which is sewn onto the drill material. These were presumably to fasten around the wearer's stomach and back. Two buckles are attached to rectangular pieces of leather sewn diagonally on the front of the shoulders. These buckles receieved a missing set of shoulder straps, and would have been the means by which the armour was hung. The lower groin pice has a roughly 20mm diameter bullet or shrapnel perforation passing clean through it from the rear. The armour is water and rust stained. No markings are evident.
Body armour worn by Japanese soldiers during the Second World War. Provenance of this piece is unknown.
Olive green fragmentation protective body armour for groin. The armour fits around the hips and the rounded back extends down over the buttocks. The armour also covers the front of the lower body with
This body armour consists of a rectangular dished chest plate and a roughly triangular groin plate. The groin plate is attached to the chest plate by three straps. Both plates are covered with a ligh
German soldier's body armour made up of four steel plates, of which the lower three, protecting the lower abdomen and groin, are suspended by means of a pair of cotton webbing straps. The uppermost pl
Private purchase body armour vest consisting of thin metal armour plates held within khaki coloured cotton fabric pockets. A pair of thin straps with adjustable brass buckles ensure that the armour p
A British manufactured body armour vest that was originally covered with brown leather. The leather covering has been cut away from the front and back panels, near the edges, to reveal flexible armour
M69 khaki nylon covered fragmentation vest containing a ballistic nylon filler sealed in a waterproof vinyl plastic casing. The filler consisted of 12 thicknesses of ballistic nylon cloth in the front
