1908 Pattern British / Canadian Entrenching tool head, circa WW I. It has a partial makers name and date, "EELWE_____, 191_" Implement, Intrenching, pattern 1908 (the Sirhind tool) Introduced by List of Changes entry §14796 dated 22 October 1908, 23 July 1909 & 8 October 1909, the Implement, Intrenching, pattern 1908 - Head, and the Implement, Intrenching, pattern 1908 - Helve are not, course, Web equipment of any sort, but these items are inextricably related to Web Equipment, Pattern 1908. The Implement, Intrenching, pattern 1908 was based on the "Sirhind" tool used by the Indian Army, and the Pattern '08 Entrenching tool was and is still commonly called the Sirhind tool. It is made in two separable pieces, the Head and the Helve. Army Order 267/1923 officially declared the Implement, Intrenching, pattern 1908 - Head, and the Implement, Intrenching, pattern 1908 - Helve obsolete. It would be resurrected later under as the Implement, entrenching, pattern 1908 under ACI 2339 on 26th November, 1941, for service in another War. Note on spelling - In the original List of Changes entry for the Implement, Intrenching, pattern 1908, and in most (but not all) official documentation until about 1939, the word is spelled "intrenching". Occasionally, though the spelling "entrenching" slips in, apparently depending on the whim of the War Office clerk on duty at the time. Following the 1939 reintroduction of the Sirhind tool as "Implements, entrenching, 1937 pattern", the "en-" spelling has become today's norm. I have taken a "neither here nor there" approach to this problem. In direct quotations I've used the original spelling, whilst in references to the item itself I've taken the conventional "en-" usage.