Scroll Helmet Article

[joerookery]

If you're interested my latest article on scroll helmets is here:

http://www.pickelhauben.net/articles/Scroll_helmets.html

[Chris Boonzaier]

A very interesting article indeed!!

I would not have recognised these as WW1 German (blush)

[Chris Boonzaier]

A thought....

the 247 falls right into the basin of the divisions raised from nothing and sent to the front in a month and a half. Karl unruh writes that their equipment level was close to zero........

maybe this was the answer?

[joerookery]

Chris,

There is really no mystery about the 247. The mountain machine-gun elements 211 -- 250 all seem to be adequately documented. The problem is in the regiments. 51 for example exists in no documentation that I'm aware of concerning scroll elements. Yet, there certainly is a picture!

[Chris Boonzaier]

Ahhh, I misread... I was thinking R.I.R. 247

back to the drawing board them...