Romanian kitchen equipment

Roumanian (german type) mess kit. My guess is that we had produced this model after the war. It is unmarked.

Romanian ww2 mess kit. Complete and in very good condition, enamel intact.

I have reconsidered my opinion regarding the aluminum canteen, after I bought another one covert with felt and seeing one in a picture, used by a Romanian soldier. It’s very probable that the one presented as Yugoslav in this book: "Field Equipment of the infantry 1914-1945" by Robert Fisch is Romanian.

Now the pictures:

The pages from the book "Field Equipment of the infantry 1914-1945" by Robert Fisch presenting a Romanian canteen without the felt (in my opinion) as Yugoslav.


And the picture from Militaria Magasin Hors-Serie Nr 51 "Guerre en Crimee Prendre Sebastopol !" by Yves Buffetaut:

The right gunner has a big canteen attached to the gas mask bag.

Hello. I have two models Yugo canteen.
Belgrad 1940

and Balkanmetal Kopryvnica 1940


This post has been edited by maxikasek on March 03, 2007 09:22 pm

Romanian water canteen with, what appears to be, russian cover. The cover is made out of two layers, cloth on the outside, felt on the inside.
The attaching system is actually a cloth belt with buckle.

I think that one of my neighbours has three "nr.72" canteens.

The cover doesn’t like the Russian ones on the net ( http://www.aboutww2militaria.com/index.htm...ield_gear_3.htm ). The material used inside as padding looks like Romanian WWII cloth used for uniforms; also the way the cap is attached to the cover doesn’t seem to be field made.

Therefore I think that it's a Romanian canteen and cover made especially for cold climates like the Russian winters.

I reckon you are right. As far as I have seen on the site you have mentioned above, those russian canteen covers are bag-like, with an X strap around the neck of the canteen. Also the material seems to be ordinary thin cloth.

My latest acquisition: a aluminum mess tin used in WWII by the romanian army probably made in Italy as it's very similar to the ones used by the Italian army in WWII.



This post has been edited by mihnea on March 30, 2007 05:52 pm

My latest acquisition: romanian canteen - one of them.

and my collections
http://www.ioh.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5815

I think that now I have almost all the major types of canteens and mess kits used by the Romanian army in WWII (not counting the German, Russian, Hungarian and the WWI items), I mean all the standard equipment used at the beginning of the war.



Canteens, from left to right: enameled similar to the Austrian WWI ones, aluminium with four ribs on the exterior this one has a German cork but it fits perfectly and it's from the period so I'm not going to change it (beneath it is the cover but because the cover stayed for many year on a German canteen it doesn’t fit any more but you can see one in mint condition here: http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?showtopic=2884&st=0 ); the other two are identical except that one is bigger.
Mess kits, again from left to right: the most common Romanian canteen made from enameled steel, the handle is blued; identical to the previous one but this one is 1cm smaller than the first one; this is most probably the plate for these canteens it fits both but if it is used with the smaller one there combined height is very close to the big one; Italian canteen made from aluminum, I have seen it used only by the paratroopers.

I always wanted to reconstruct this picture:

Congratulation I like them a lot.

Bigger canteen and messkit made for highlander troops.