Individual First Aid Packet And Pouches

(Packet, First Aid, Individual, Item #92082 – period 1940-1944 – from the collection of Alain Batens)

From L to R & from Top to Bottom: 1 X First-Aid Packet, U.S. Gov’t., Carlisle Model, to open: pull tape, mfd by Bauer & Black, Div of The Kendall Co.-Chicago (semi-gloss OD brass box, first series), M-1940 model – 1 X Shell Wound Dressing, Sterilized, Carlisle, (to open pull tab), Lot No. 583, manufactured by Handy Pad Supply Co., Worcester, Mass. – distributed by Conray Products Co., New York, N.Y., packed in white rectangular light cardboard box with d. blue markings + outer cellophane wrapper (shortage of metals), M-1942 model – 1 X Small Battle Dressing, sterilized – camouflaged, US Army Carlisle Model, Stock No. 2-395, Lot No. 403, Contract No. 1408-59304A, manufactured by Handy Pad Supply Co., Worcester, Mass. – distributed by Conray Products Co., New York, N.Y., packed in brown rectangular light cardboard bow with black markings (shortage of metals), M-1942 model – 1 X First Aid Packet, U.S. Gov’t, Carlisle Model, to open: pull tape, mfd by Bauer & Black, Div of The Kendall Co.-Chicago + rear with crystalline sulfanilamide (OD brass box, second series, with different markings, and addition of sulfanilamide powder), M-1941 model – 1 X First Aid Packet, U.S. Gov’t, Carlisle Model, to open: pull tape, mfd by Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J. – Chicago, Ill. + rear with sulfanilamide (light OD brass box, first series, w/ sulfa powder), M-1942 model - 1 X First Aid Packet U.S. Gov’t., Carlisle Model, (to open pull tape), mfd by Acme Cotton Products Co., Inc. + rear with sulfanilamide (dark OD plastic box, Tenite, shortage of metals), M-1943 model, only Bauer & Black and Acme manufactured the plastic version) – 1 X First Aid Packet U.S. Gov’t., Carlisle Model, to open: pull tape, mfd by Handy Pad Supply Co., Worcester, Mass. + rear with sulfanilamide and circular marking stating Conray Products Company, N.Y., Contractor (OD brass box, second series, w/ sulfa powder), M-1942 model – 1 X Small First Aid Dressing, US Army Carlisle Model, to open pull tab, mfd by Bauer & Black, Chicago, USA, Division of The Kendall Company, Contract No. W 603 MD 15121 M 55892, packed in white rectangular light cardboard box with black stamped markings + outer waxed wrapper (shortage of metals), M-1940 model – 1 X Small First Aid Dressing, US Army Carlisle Model, to open pull tab, mfd by Bauer & Black, Chicago, USA, Division of The Kendall Company, Contract No. W 603 MD 15121 M 55892, packed in white rectangular light cardboard box with black markings, no outer wrapper (shortage of metals), M-1940 model – 1 X First Aid Packet, U.S. Gov’t, Carlisle Model, to open: pull tape, mfd by Bauer & Black, Div. of The Kendall Co.-Chicago (Red tin-plate metal box, use of old stock metal boxes with no indication of sulfa powder on rear part, therefore, in order to identify box WITH sulfa, these were painted red), M-1941/M-1942 models – 1 X First Aid Packet, U.S. Gov’t, Carlisle Model, to open: pull tape, mfd by Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J.-Chicago, Ill. + rear with sulfanilamide (OD tin-plate metal box), M-1940 model – 1 X Small First Aid Dressing, Carlisle Model, (to open pull twine), mfd by Handy Pad Supply Co., Worcester, Mass., Contract No. W 603 MD 15119 M 55890, packed in white rectangular light cardboard box with black markings + outer wax coating (shortage of metals), M-1940 model – 1 X Small First Aid Dressing, US Army Carlisle Model, Sterilized, (to open pull tab), Item No. 92060, Lot No. 199, Contract No. W 2827 MD-2280, Office Identifying No. M-2991, mfd by Handy Pad Supply Co., Worcester, Mass. Packed in l. brown rectangulart light cardboard box with black markings, no outer wrapper (shortage of metals), M-1940 model – 1 X First Aid Packet, U.S. Gov’t, Carlisle Model, to open: pull tape, mfd by Bauer & Black, Div. of The Kendall Co.-Chicago, Ill. + rear with crystalline sulfanilamide (OD tin-plate metal box), M-1941 model – 1 X First Aid Packet U.S. Gov’t., Carlisle Model, (to open pull tape), mfd by Acme Cotton Products Co., Inc. + rear with sulfanilamide (dark OD plastic box, Tenite, shortage of metals), M-1943 model – 1 X Packet First-Aid, Field Brown Dressing, US Army Carlisle Model, Dyed Sterilized Dressing, mfd by The American White Cross Laboratories Inc., New Rochelle, N.Y. – Cape Girardeau, Mo., packed in sealed laminated paper wrapper + outer brown paraffin-coated cardboard box (black colored wrapper with silver markings, cheaper to produce), M-1943 model – 1 X First Aid Packet, U.S. Gov’t., Carlisle Model, with Sulfanilamide, mfd by Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J.-Chicago, Ill., packed in sealed laminated paper wrapper + outer brown paraffin-coated cardboard box (d. green colored wrapper with silver markings), M-1943 model – 1 X First Aid Packet, U.S. Gov’t., Carlisle Model with Sulfanilamide, mfd by Acme Cotton Prod. Co. Inc., N.Y.C., packed in sealed laminated paper wrapper + outer brown paraffin-coated cardboard box (d. brown colored wrapper with silver markings), M-1943 model – 1 X Small Battle Dressing, Camouflaged Sterilized, Carlisle Model, Stock No. 2-396, mfd by A.E. Halperin Co. Inc., Boston, Mass., packed in sealed laminated paper wrapper + outer brown paraffin-coated cardboard box (d. green colored wrapper with silver markings, USN model), M-1943 model – 1 X Dressing , First Aid, Individual Troop, Camouflaged, Small, Stock No. 2-017-455, Dyed Sterilized Dressing, mfd mfd by Guild Products Corporation, N.J., USA, packed in sealed aluminum-coated (internally) Kraft brown paper wrapper + outer brown paraffin-coated cardboard box (l. brown colored wrapper with maroon markings), M-1944 model – 1 X Pouch, First Aid Packet, M-1910 (Army Stock No. 74-P-255), Khaki cotton duck, belt hook, double press stud closure, mfd by The M-H Co., 9-1918 + Small First-Aid Dressing, US Army Carlisle Model in waxed box – 1 X Pouch, First Aid Packet, M-1942 (Army Stock No. 74-P-260), Khaki web, belt hook, single Lift-the-dot snap fastener, mfd by B.A.B. Co, 1943 + Red colored tin-plate First Aid Packet box – 1 X Pouch, First Aid Packet, M-1942 (Army Stock No. 74-P-260), Olive Drab web, belt hook, single Lift-the-dot snap fastener, mfd by Brede Inc., 1944 + dark OD colored plastic First Aid Packet box – 1 X Pouch, First Aid Packet, M-1942, British Made, Khaki (British) web, belt hook, single (British) press stud by N.B. Ltd., mfd by US A.G. 1944 British Made + brown colored cardboard box with Small First Aid Dressing w/ outher cellophane wrapper – Remark: sulfa powder envelope added to contents of First Aid Packet metal box (1941), sulfa powder envelope also added to contents First Aid Packet web pouch (1941), sulfadiazine (wound) tablets added to First Aid Packet web pouch (1942) – the M-1942 was an enlarged version of the std. M-1924 web pouch, in order to accomodate both first-aid packet + sulfadiazine tablets (Army Stock Nos. for M-1924 & M-1942 First Aid Pouches were identical, i.e. 74-P-260) it should be noted that early 1942, white bandages changed into ‘field brown’ or ‘camouflaged’ i.e. tinted dressings !

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