The green 1958 pattern webbing equipment was worn by the battalion from 1959 until issue of the 1990 pattern Personal Load Carrying Equipment (or PLCE) on the arrival of the battalion in Catterick at the start of its airmobile infantry tour in 1990. The battalion had also from time to time received temporary issues of the green webbing 1944 pattern equipment for jungle-based operational and training missions, such as those in British Honduras and Malaysia in the late 1960s. 1944 Pattern was also issued to the battalion during their tour in HongKong.

From 1959, and until the end of the Malta tour, blancoed web anklets were in general use with battledress and equivalent orders of dress. In Malta, during the early 1960s, personnel also wore short puttees with dark blue hose-tops and KD shorts.

Photographs of the battalion in Malta also recorded the use of the short puttees with combat dress by soldiers on exercises in North Africa, and the wearing of the light tan Fox’s tropical short puttees by officers. Once the battalion arrived in Minden, West Germany, and until 1974, all ranks adopted the black polished webbing anklets with temperate combat dress and with other forms of working dress.

In 1974, when the 1st Battalion was serving in Ballykinler, Northern Ireland, the battalion as a whole was issued with the dark brown short woollen puttees, which replaced the anklets and were worn by officers and soldiers alike, until the puttees finally became redundant with receipt of the first issues of the new ‘boots combat high’ (or BCH) by the battalion in early 1983 (in time for the Operation BANNER tour to South Armagh).

Unlike many other regiments, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment did not adopt a coloured ‘regimental pullover’, and all ranks therefore wore the various Army-issued khaki, and later olive green, woollen pullovers throughout the life of the regiment. The only minor exception to this was when, in the mid to late 1960s, officers serving away from the 1st Battalion at the Wessex Brigade Depot in Exeter were encouraged to purchase and wear a black ‘Wessex Brigade pullover’ in barrack dress.