What do British soldiers carry in their IFAKs?

Every soldier is issued a basic trauma management kit on operations, comprising 2x Field Dressings. The new type, which was introduced somewhere around 2010, is stretchy to help you apply more pressure to the wound, keeping blood inside the body rather than sucking it all into a nice absorbent pad. read more

The belt is part of their CEFO (Complete Equipment Fighting Order) and the pouches (not pockets) will contain magazines of ammunition for their personal weapons, cleaning kit for their personal weapons, water bottle, respirator (what the UK military call a gas mask). read more