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Old 10-02-20, 20:28
Ed Storey Ed Storey is offline
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Default Parachute Helmet

C.L./C 1944 Parachute Helmets are actually post-SWW, the 1950s if I am not mistaken, Canadian military conversions of the wartime Canadian manufactured Dispatch Rider helmets to the Parachute type. This was done to address a need for Parachute Helmets over DR Helmets and the full details of the story can be found in Roger Lucy's Service Publication Book 'Tin Lids'. Look for a 'C Broad Arrow' stamped on the inside of the helmet.

Now I have no idea how long you have had the helmet or where it came from but the re-enacting community has also been converting DR helmets to the Parachute style for several decades and your helmet could also be one of those conversions.

Photographs would be very nice. This is one of my original wartime British Parachute Helmets.

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