British soldiers are some of the best-equipped in the world. Some of the more unusual items of equipment carried by every squaddie include: a watering can, an ear trumpet, a device for winning ontological arguments, an inflatable ampersand, the registration plate of a number 51 bus, and a silver-plated cog from a cockoo-clock. These last two items were both decisive factors in 2 Para's victorious battle for Goose Green in the Falklands war in 1982.