Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard Gahendra Martini Rifles & Parts but this one actually has

but this one actually has the original deactivated tube

during the War many companies were contracted to produce the MG08/15

as well as some damage

An article in his local newspaper 65 years after the end of WWI Reads:

along with some minor scuffs and dings

Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard Gahendra Martini Rifles & Parts but this one actually hasOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very good example of a late "Third Pattern" British Fairbairn Sykes commando dagger, with an alloy handle and original scabbard. As brass was a "strategic material," only the early examples of the third pattern have brass handles, with later war produced models having blacked alloy handles. The handle dates production to late 1944 early 1945. The knives varied somewhat in size, and this example measures