C049685 WWI CANADIAN "Lord Strathcona's Horse " MK1 COMBAT HELMET.

BACKGROUND: The first "modern" steel helmets were introduced by the French army in early 1915 and were shortly followed by the British army later that year. The M15 helmet became known as the MK I or "Brodie" after its inventor John Leopold Brodie and by July 1916 over a million of them had been delivered. The design allowed for easy mass production using "Hadfield’s" manganese steel and protected the wearer from shell fragments and air-burst shrapnel.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A second pattern (with a magnetic steel rim instead of a raw edge) Mark l non-magnetic hardened manganese steel helmet. Marked with the formation badge of Lord Strathcona's Horse (RC). It is atypical of the helmets normally seen to the unit, which have LSH stenciled on the front and back, but it does appear to be a period piece. Nice complete liner and chinstrap system. To the underside of the rear brim of the helmet body is stamped "FS 37" being the steel supplier’s initial and the code number for the batch of steel the helmet was made from. Size 6 3/4 marked. Nice helmet!

Of interest, here is First World War era "Munnings" painting of a Trooper of Lord Strathcona's Horse in the Canadian War Museum's war art collection, in which the Trooper is wearing a helmet that appears to match this one.

https://www.warmuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1016762

GRADE ****                             PRICE $1,400.00

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