Most of the raincoats and mackintoshes issued on demobilisation have a warm lining for winter use, and we allow men to keep their service pullovers.
It is what is known as mackintosh bathing.
Armies require great quantities of cotton for clothing, bedding, tents, ground sheets, mackintoshes, tarpaulins, and many other purposes.
Paragraph (4) brings us to mackintoshes, overalls, and so on.
You give up two coupons for a man's handkerchief, so for a mackintosh, 20 or 30 for a shirt, and so on.
In addition, limited numbers of mackintosh capes are held by units for use by cadets.
To keep the walls decently dry they had to be overlaid with a mackintosh, namely, a coat of cement.
They include a wireless set, additional coal and food, mackintoshes, goloshes, and gum boots.
