British HSAT Para Helmet Decal

[Sapper00]

Picked up a post war HSAT with a helmet decal I can not identify. Not a cheap sticker decal but a period style decal. Honestly not sure if its from a British formation but it's not Canadian. Any help would be appreciated.

[54Bty]

Not everyone understands abbreviations and initials!

HSAT =

[silverwash]

collector jargon. Helmet, Steel, Airborne Troops, wearing for the use of. ergo para lid.

[Sapper00]

My apologies, It was in the header but not the text. Helmet Steel Airborne Troops was the British Para helmet in WW2 and up to the 70s. A few Commonwealth and foreign countries used them. The Mk1 was a fibre brim with leather straps and the Mk2 was all metal with a 3 point web harness. Many variations and mix and match set ups.

Mine is a Mk2 with a 1955 liner. The shell may be wartime but the liner is post war so I don't know the era of the decal.

The picture is sideways for some reason as the sword tip is up on the helmet.
Decals are on both sides.

[JerryBB]

Originally Posted by Sapper00

My apologies, It was in the header but not the text. Helmet Steel Airborne Troops was the British Para helmet in WW2 and up to the 70s. A few Commonwealth and foreign countries used them. The Mk1 was a fibre brim with leather straps and the Mk2 was all metal with a 3 point web harness. Many variations and mix and match set ups.

Mine is a Mk2 with a 1955 liner. The shell may be wartime but the liner is post war so I don't know the era of the decal.

The picture is sideways for some reason as the sword tip is up on the helmet.
Decals are on both sides.

It is similar to the sign for infantry training school.

[Sapper00]

Originally Posted by JBBOND

It is similar to the sign for infantry training school.

I thought that was more of a bayonet?

[Mike Jackson]

Originally Posted by JBBOND

It is similar to the sign for infantry training school.

UK - School of Infantry (1st Pattern - circa 1954) - an accurate representation of a bayonet. Mike
School of Infantry_1st Pattern_1954.jpg

[Sapper00]

I was wondering if it could be a variation of a St Paul's sword, red and white for London? A 50's London unit perhaps?

[54Bty]

Originally Posted by silverwash

collector jargon. Helmet, Steel, Airborne Troops, wearing for the use of. ergo para lid.

I would not have called it 'collector jargon', more War Office, and Ordnance cataloguing designation. Some times also used by museums in the in house catalogue.

Marc

[silverwash]

guaranteed to elicit interchange

[Sapper00]

There must be someone out there who has seen this insignia before.

Anyone with knowledge of the post-war era? I'm thinking maybe a Jump Company or Battalion within the structure of the London Regiment?