. Hi Johan,   a good comment and they are great Jeeps as you say, and as I often say without the production of the Hotchkiss Jeeps and all the spare parts they produced to maintain the Jeeps then there would be less wartime Jeeps on the road as many have used Hotchkiss spares to keep wartime ones running.   There were also a number of improvement modifications they made to the parts they produced including to the wartime transmission parts etc.  And again all virtually interchangeable with wartime Jeeps except the upgraded 24 volt parts they introduced.    Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, June 30  2O25.    ….

All I see are captain's bars, not 1st lieutenant's on that first coat. A wound chevron would be on the right seleve. When the gold-colored chevron is on the left sleeve, it represents 6 months of service in the Zone of Operations. The red chevron above it is for honorable discharge. Crossed rifles is for Infantry. 

Any idea of who the maker of this 1816 is?

Sad as the Hotchkiss M201 is a fantastic Jeep in its own right.... Here's one that belongs to a friend, restored to what it really is, a post-WW2 French made Jeep....    

BayonetM16 regarding post #4.  The "V" shaped chevron mark on Milpar M7s started with the Colt marked Milpar M7 and continued throughout the first contract. Ralph Cobb suggests that due to the number of these chevrons found on Milpars M7s, that the chevron may have continued to be used for some time afterwards.  As to the chevron being found on the 1968-69 M7s, I don't think you'll ever find one.  By that time, it was a little late in the game to find a chevron.    As to the curved runnout on Milpar M7s,   When I mentioned in post #2 that this M7 was made during the Vietnam era, that's not necessarily saying it was used specifically in the Vietnam war.  However, tracking shipments and transfers of bayonets from one Base to another, redirecting of supplies etc. is hard to track. In my opinion, there could have been many of these Milpar M7s with the curved runnouts actually used by troops in Vietnam.   The pictures below are of a Milpar/Colt M7. Marv By the way, I don't mind being corrected on any of this information...feel free.

It has the same "edged" clip keeper as the LINCLOE ammo pouch. Tim

According to Sgtmonroe's book, these were designed to hold two bandages and a sodium bicarbonate packet.

Well, it only took nine years but I finally found one. 

In the 1980s these were all over the place at shows in Belgium and France.... All mint examples... They must have left many of these in Europe after the Great War...  

Love the CSM crow!  Didn’t become a seperate rate until 1926. (I’m a retired SMCS, so partial to SM stuff).