Paratrooper knife carried by a soldier of 152nd Indian Parachute Battalion, 1947 (c)

Manufactured by Metal Industries Limited or Metal Industries Lahore, Punjab, India, 1942.

Double edged blade, wooden grips with three grooves and leather scabbard with steel mouthpiece and chape. The wooden grips of the knife were preferred for use in the tropics to the normal all-metal designs.