Original British Household Cavalry Horse Guard Parade Helmet with Red Plume Category_MG 34 Bolt & Barrel Assembly " During this time leather

" During this time leather fire-fighting helmets were slowly replaced with a combination of surplus World War I model steel helmets and privately manufactured versions in the “Austrian” pattern shell

Once they were a true pair but at some stage no doubt during their working life one lock was lost and replaced by a locally made "flintlock" the original being the classic North African Miguelet lock of the era

WEIGHT (LBS): 16

Bomber crews often added small bombs to the right front of their jackets indicating the number of missions they had flown

Rice and Dockeray were employees at the brewery

Original British Household Cavalry Horse Guard Parade Helmet with Red Plume Category_MG 34 Bolt & Barrel Assembly " During this time leatherOriginal Item: Only One Available. Released from British Government Stores in the early 1990s we were fortunate to obtain a very few examples. These having been used had been in storage probably for twenty years prior to sale and then deposited with IMA. This is an absolutely genuine original British Horse Guards Parade helmet and comes complete with the original leather liner, ringed chin scales and red dyed genuine horsehair plume. The Helmet plate