"In your pack you'd have your sleeping bag or a ground sheet. A hootchie which is a nylon sheet of around about 3 metres by 2 metres which you'd put up to keep the rain off you at night time. You may carry a spare set of clothing. No-one wore any underpants and I didn't wear any socks simply because your feet were always wet and if you want your toes to fall off you wear socks 24 hours a day without removing your boots because that's what you did."

SERGEANT BOB BUICK