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    i guys can you help with helmet datinghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_02_2015/post-10499-0-79163500-1424196015.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_02_2015/post-10499-0-90773500-1424196033.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_02_2015/post-10499-0-16850400-1424196053.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_02_2015/post-10499-0-29326500-1424196077.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_02_2015/post-10499-0-09550200-1424196096.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_02_2015/post-10499-0-09550200-1424196096.jpg

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    This helmet was worn and is still worn by some units......  This is the home service pattern......

     

    The helmet should have a ball and not a spike as it is artillery.....

     

    Mike

     

     

     

    I think the first is the Victorian period home service helmet, is it not?  With a King's Crown plate.  Pity the spike is missing.  I agree that both are very likely pre-WWI.

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    guys did the royal marines use this kind of plume ?

    No, I don't believe that they used any plume whatsoever. I had a RM helmet very similiar to the one shown, with a King's Crown, same as worn today, but with a Queen's Crown.

    When the Royal Marine Artillery and Royal Marine Light Infantry were amalgamated, around 1922 I believe, the helmet of the RMLI was used, but with a ball device to the spike, as used by the RMA.

     

                                                                               BobS

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    I just checked Chas. Stadden's book on Royal Marine Uniforms. Both the RMLI & RMA wore the white wolesley helmet just prior to WWI; the RMLI used to wear the typical infantry 1878 pattern home service helmet previously.  A close friend of mine has an officer's version, and it's a beauty.

    The RMA and RMLI amalgamated in 1923.

     

                                                                      BobS

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