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    Hello everybody

    My name is Mats and i am from sweden and collect swedish military hats and helmets. I come across this mkII some years ago , but i have never found out what it really is? Could you please help me.

    regards Mats 

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    Mats,

    I don't have a definite answer for you but a red band on WW2 Fire Brigade helmets denoted a Leading Fireman I believe, not saying that is what it is by the way. Could also be a Factory or Company logo represented on the front. Do not believe it represents a British Army Regiment but may be wrong.

    Regards Simon

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    the helmet shell is by Fisher & Ludlow, a British maker.  Post War Irish army use seems most likely, or perhaps a civilian factory fireguard unit.  They only made shells between 1939-42, but the shells were reused by the irish into the post war period

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    2 hours ago, Dave Wilkinson said:

    I think that the symbol on the front is one that may have been used by the Irish Civil Defence in the 1950's. Not sure but a possibility.

    Dave.

     

    That would make sense, post war Irish use.

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