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I have this old paratrooper helmet...
Hi all, this morning i'd like to know exactly how rare is my 1944 original british paratrooper helmet. It has the leather chin straps and from the markings, was made in Glasgow. I know we don't see these helmets too often...but how rare are they? (the steel is non-magnetic) Inside the edge I can read C.L./C 1944. I wish I could post some images!
Thank you, Eric
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I agree, I wish you could post pictures also.
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Sorry about this....i'll try better when i get home!
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Posting pictures
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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. British Mk II Parachute Helmet - leather chin strap copy.jpg |
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Should be worth a thousand words....if not much money!85051704_2909706645727881_2570829872762978304_n.jpg
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