Well the handle or blade isnt a mk.2 style. But there were lots varients in the mk.2s so perhaps its logical to assume there were varients amongst the mk.3s .
Most mk.3 still have the roller marks from the rolling machines on them, that how little distal taper they usualy have!
Many chindits carried the standerd English army machete & some carried some long American ones as well. Some brigades were also issued kukri although in many brigades if you wanted a kukri you had to get it of a Gurkha or buy them localy from shops in India.
As for my father its hard to imagine what it was like for him. He saw & did things that haunted him to his death bed & only spoke about in his last 18 days of life. Id say it stole his youth,health, faith , & sense of fun at the age of 18 when he went to play & live in the Burma jungle for 4 years.
It was a tough call for many who were there.
Spiral
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