[BCMA] Ammo box - can anyone help?

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Carol Law
> CFB Chilliwack Historical Society
> Museum and Archives
 

 
> From: jimharris at shaw.ca
> To: claw567 at shaw.ca
> Subject: Ammo box - can anyone help?
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:11:17 -0800
> 
 > Carol,
> Another response - plse fwd - Jim
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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> From: Michael DesMazes <rcaf5otu at hotmail.com<mailto:rcaf5otu at hotmail.com>>
> Date: February 24, 2016 at 3:31:09 PM PST
> To: "Langlet, Lisa"
> <Lisa.Langlet at burnaby.ca<mailto:Lisa.Langlet at burnaby.ca>>
> Subject: Re: [BCMA] FW: Ammo box - can anyone help?
> 
> Standard 303 cal ammunition box, Canadian with the, "Broad Arrow C".  Fred
> is correct,  GSW is  General Steel Wares. GSW mad many items for the
> Canadian military in WW2. These boxes would have been in service with the
> Canadian military up to the time we converted to the 7.62 FN rifle. c late
> 1950s and perhaps later as the Rangers used the 303 until very recently.
> Are the metal lids for the inserts missing?  It should also have rope or
> hemp handles on either end.
> 
> Cheers for now.  Michael DesMazes.
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