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Old 06-04-20, 05:37 PM
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Default Sun Helmet question.
This photo is on the Victorian Militia Society site so l hope no one minds me posting on here . No one knows the helmet flash me included, l'm sure someone on this forum would have an idea.
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Old 06-04-20, 05:53 PM
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No idea could they be a cover over the badge ?
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Old 06-04-20, 06:00 PM
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It looks as if it is just a large lozenge shaped patch with no design or badge.
Possibly just that, for use as a local unit formation sign?

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Reminiscent of canadian patches from a later period
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No idea could they be a cover over the badge ?
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Yes, that was my thought. Something to prevent sunlight reflecting off the badges and giving away their position?
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Old 07-04-20, 09:33 AM
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It looks as though there is a long word across the lozenge. eg xyzshire.
It various shapes these helmets are known as FSH - Foreign Service Helmet. There's a lot in the WO ledgers about badges on them but what you really want is the
very comprehensive survey of patches / flashes etc put together by John Mollo at the IWM - but I think it was only 1914 onwards. There also a book by Bates & Suciu
.”The Wolseley Helmet in Pictures from Omdurman to El Alamein”
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I am quite sure there is nothing on the patches. What appears to be something is likely just the high point of Pagri folds underneath causing greater reflection on the cloth.
I still think they are some formation recognition sign in a particular color. Most insignia was worn on the side of the helmet, and if it was a badge of some sort,
why go to all the trouble to cover it. It could just be removed with greater ease.

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Is there a way of trying to identify the time period and possibly location and working backwards from there? The colonial troops on foot appear to be African? Another in a turban? Is the webbing or kit of these troops specific to a time period and/or place?

Camels in the left hand column too . . .
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Is this a photograph taken during a big exercise and the diamonds on the helmets look temporary and scarcely tactical. Could this indicate troops playing 'enemy forces'.

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Yep just spotted the camel toe.
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Is this a photograph taken during a big exercise and the diamonds on the helmets look temporary and scarcely tactical. Could this indicate troops playing 'enemy forces'.

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I think this photo may actually be maneuvers in India, and indeed those patches are likely temporary.

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