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Image 1 — Spanish Republican Soldier - Marching Gear
Image 2 — Spanish Republican Soldier - Marching Gear
Image 3 — Spanish Republican Soldier - Marching Gear
Image 4 — Spanish Republican Soldier - Marching Gear
Image 5 — Spanish Republican Soldier - Marching Gear

Spanish Republican Soldier - Marching Gear

I recently acquired a repro Spanish Army m26 tornister style backpack so I had to take some marching pics with it and all of the other marching gear according to the regulations of 1926.

Note that most of this gear was NOT used in combat as the spanish army mandated that most equipment would be left behind once the column faced combat or prepared for an attack.
Nevertheless, marching gear is very underrepresented in SCW reenactments despite how common are original marching photographs.

Hopefully this will help some of you get a better view at all the heavy uncomfortable shit that these guys had to carry around.

u/LonelyMaintenance223 — 2 days ago
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Recreación de Uniformes de la Batalla de Madrid, otoño de 1936

NO POLÍTICO

-Miliciano militarizado de las primeras Brigadas Mixtas del Ejército Popular de la República, en proceso de profesionalización. Los medios no son los mejores pero la moral es alta, Madrid resistirá.

-Regular Indígena. Soldado profesional marroquí parte del Ejército de África, temidos por su bravura en combate pero mermados tras su largo avance hacia la capital de España, son la punta de lanza del Ejército Sublevado junto con la Legión.

u/LonelyMaintenance223 — 6 days ago