Historical information

Basic item if kit carried into action to provide immediate first aid to personal injury or fellow soldier who is injuried

Physical description

First Field Dressing packed in original linen container featuring text with instructions.

Inscriptions & markings

Printed on cotton package containing the First Field Dressing. Inside a printed box is printed the following: /
FIRST FILED DRESSING / To Open... /Outer Cover. Break thread holding flap / Inner Waterproof Cover/ Tear apart at the uncemented corner (indicated by arrow). /CONTENTS:/ Two dressings in Waterproof Covers, each consisting of a gauze pad stitched to a bandage, and / a safety pin./ DIRECTION FOR USE -Take the folded ends of the / bandage in each hand, and keeping bandage / taut, apply the gauze pad to the wound and fix the / bandage One dressing to be used for each wound. / In the case of head wounds when respirators have to / be worn, care should be taken to adjust the pad so / it does not interfere with the fit of the facepiece. / DO NOT HANDLE THE GAUZE OR WOUND /
Outside the printed box is; Johnson & Johnson Pty. Ltd. Sydney. / OCTOBER 1942