Original British WWII Service Worn 3rd Pattern Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Alloy Handle Napoleonic Cameron was returned to the

Cameron was returned to the 4th Division as its commander

Complete with original leather sweatband and green lining including the original leather chinstrap

It is visually distinctive because of a wide tubular cooling shroud around the barrel — often omitted in World War I when used on aircraft — and a top-mounted drum-pan magazine

The guns were only just ready in time to take part in the early campaigns of the First World War

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Original British WWII Service Worn 3rd Pattern Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Alloy Handle Napoleonic Cameron was returned to theOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an good service worn example of the standard "Third Pattern" British Fairbairn Sykes commando dagger, with the later type alloy handle. As brass was a "strategic material," only the early examples of the third pattern have brass handles, with later war produced models having alloy handles. The handle dates production somewhere between mid 1944 and the end of the war. The knives varied somewhat in size, and