Unit marking???
Hi,I have this old 'brodie' tin hat thats been lying around for a while, as you can see it has some sort of a unit or company insignia painted onto it. Does anyone know what company, regiment or...
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Looks similar to a part of the badge of 1 Southern Brigade.Check out this link;http://www.military.ie/army/southern.htmI have one just like it but marked for 2 Eastern Brigade"There are many things...
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Holy Cow! How did my avatar image get so large?!?!"There are many things more horrible than bloodshed; and slavery is one ofthem."Padraig Pearse, 1913Smelly SMLE Shooters
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FiannaFail,Youre some man for one man!! LOL, I think we have a winner! I have trawled through pages after pages of British military insignia, assuming as the helmet was of the british style that the...
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Actually, the Irish started using the Brodie helmet early in WWII or "The Emergency" As it was called then. The 1927 helmet had an interesting bit of history. The Free State Gov't tried to buy helmets...
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I actually have a German, 1916 pattern steel helmet, which for many years was persuaded was Irish, I actually wished it was Irish, except for the fact that it was made out of a cast iron type metal,...
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