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Old 25-03-22, 02:53 PM
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A chum has this helmet and is looking for an id on it. Not my area so wondering if folks can help him out.
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Old 25-03-22, 02:57 PM
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Not my field either but it is being worn back to front.
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Old 25-03-22, 03:01 PM
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Not my field either but it is being worn back to front.
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Advised my chum. He may send me new pictures.

Too funny not to have even been aware of that piece.
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A post WWII British Mk IV isn't it? (The Mk III having the chinstrap rivets an inch or two higher) the MK V being the same shell as the Mk IV but having a different liner).
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Old 25-03-22, 03:13 PM
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Not my field either but it is being worn back to front.
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I once did a guard duty on the main gate of RUC Springfield Road with a Regimental Police Corporal who was wearing his tin lid back to front.
He took it off at one point, looked at it, put it on still back to front.
The visor fitted to it and in tilted fully back should've been a clue but no.......
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Old 25-03-22, 08:30 PM
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A post WWII British Mk IV isn't it? (The Mk III having the chinstrap rivets an inch or two higher) the MK V being the same shell as the Mk IV but having a different liner).
/thank you so much Leigh. Well done.

You from Cornwall area by chance?

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Old 25-03-22, 08:52 PM
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I don't think I've ever been down that aways - I here they be very wary of us Grockles down there?
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I don't think I've ever been down that aways - I here they be very wary of us Grockles down there?
understood. My best friend is a Kitchen from down there.
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Old 25-03-22, 10:06 PM
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Years ago one of my sons picked up a WWI Victory Medal named to a Kitchen in the Royal Artillery - turned out he wasn't a relation by the look of it - a fisherman from Cornwall.
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The liner and the shell should both be dated. Some mkiv's were produced in 1945, though too late for wartime issue, most are 1950's dated.
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Wrong or right way to wear it. There are official images illustrating the new helmet being worn with the peak at the front.

I will admit that mine was worn peak to the front when in the prone position on the rifle range to stop it being pushed over my face by the my pack.

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A later mark of helmet which I found on Saturday, no chance of this one being worn back to front.

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A later mark of helmet which I found on Saturday, no chance of this one being worn back to front.

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nice, I see it is now on ebay, I might have to have a punt
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