Compiled by Cheryl E. Belding

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• It costs $156.30 to equip an infantryman for service in France. This cost, according to official figures, is divided as follows:

Item	Cost
Clothing, etc.	101.21
Eating utensils, etc.	7.73
Fighting equipment	47.36
Total	$ 156.30

• Items included under "clothing" are as follows:

Item	Cost
One bedsack	.98
Three wool blankets	18.75
One waist belt	.25
Two pairs wool breeches	8.90
Two wool service coats	15.20
One hat cord	.08
Three pairs summer drawers	1.50
Three pairs winter drawers	4.88
One pair wool gloves	.61
One service hat	1.70
Two pairs extra shoe laces	.05
One pair canvas leggins	1.05
Two flannel shirts	7.28
Five pairs wool stockings	1.50
Two pairs shoes	10.20
Four identification tags	.02
Three summer undershirts	1.50
Four winter undershirts	4.88
One overcoat	14.92
Five shelter tent pins	.20
One shelter tent pole	.26
One poncho	3.55
One shelter tent	2.95
Total "clothing"	$ 101.21

• Items included under "eating utensils" are food issued to each man to be carried in his haversack during field service, canteen and canteen cover, cup, knife, fork, spoon, meat can, haversack, pack carrier, first aid kit, and pouch to carry it.

• The items under "fighting equipment" follow:

Item	Cost
One rifle	19.50
One bayonet	2.15
One bayonet scabbard	1.13
One cartridge belt	4.08
One hundred cartridges	5.00
One steel helmet	3.00
One gas mask	12.00
One trench tool	.50
Total "fighting equipment"	$ 47.36

• Prices are subject to frequent changes, so cannot be taken as absolutely accurate in every case. Steel helmets and gas masks are being bought in France and England, as well as manufactured in this country, and the costs of those bought abroad and made here differ. The figure given for a rifle is the cost of making the "United States Rifle, Model 1903", generally known as the Springfield. The first 600,000 to 800,000 troops to go to France will carry this weapon. The so-called Enfield rifle used by British troops is being manufactured to equip other American troops, and is officially known as the "United States Rifle, Model 1917". This is being made on a "cost-plus profit" basis, so that no accurate figure for it can now be given.

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