Home Service Helmet

A fine and very rare short lived example of a 16th lanarkshire rifle volunteers home service helmet probably belonging to a regimental sergeant major or regimental quartermaster sergeant.

Home service helmet. The helmets come with various types of decoration fittings to indentify different officer ranks as well as units and. Nowadays only some of the regimental bands wear them. In generally good condition though missing headband. Adopted by the british army in 1878 it was in use as the full dress helmet until 1914.

While we focus on sun helmets on this website these are of course only one form of headgear among many worn by armies throughout history. The home service helmet is still worn as part of full dress uniform by line infantry regiments in the united kingdom today. Blue cloth modern bandsman s example with white metal fittings. This is an 1878 pattern british blue cloth home service helmet.

Please see other items that i have listed in different categories then for total postage please wait for invoice. The subject of this article is the british home service helmet which in this writer s opinion was inspired by the colonial pattern sun helmet worn in india from at least as early as the 1850s. Modern example with chin chain rosettes cruciform spike. Save 2 a british army home service blue cloth helmet gilded.

The foreign service helmet notably was replaced by the wolseley pattern helmet while the home. The british foreign service helmet was introduced in the 1870s for use in its overseas colonies. An essex regiment officer s 1878 pattern home service helmet. Home service cloth helmet.

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In 1878 nearly forty years after it was first mooted as an alternative headdress a helmet was approved for the infantry. The dark green four panelled melton cloth covered skull is complete with all its white metal fittings of officer s pattern and quality. Around the same time the home service helmet known today amongst collectors as the blue cloth helmet was introduced for use by units the british army whilst stationed in the uk. The helmet plate badge has a tudor crown which was in use from 1901 to 1939.

Victorian royal engineers spiked black cloth spikehelmet by haslett. This is an 1878 pattern british blue cloth home service helmet. Although the wearing of full dress uniform by these units largely ceased after the first world war it continues to be worn by regimental bands corps of drums and guards of honour on ceremonial occasions.