This chinstrap is complete, strong, and undamaged, with the leather pliable. Of the few other genuine examples I know of the slender chinstrap is either missing or damaged. ![]() It retains its original light conker brown issue colour as well as its original chinstrap. The Helmet is in very good condition missing just one of the "nipple" rivets on the right side. It is thought that no more than a 1000 of these were ever made. ![]() By the end of 1917 it had largely been withdrawn from service. These Helmets subsequently proved to be unpopular with Tank Crews as it was thought to resemble a German Helmet from a distance leading to "friendly fire" incidents. The WW1 British Tank Helmet was introduced for the very first British Tank Battle, this at Flers-Courcelette on the 15th of September 1916, an episode in the larger Battle of the Somme. At the time of the publication of the book, copies of this Helmet were either non-existent or very poorly executed, sadly twenty one years on that is not the case today. Published in 2000 the Helmet was at that time part of the collection of Radovic himself and is of course guaranteed absolutely original as is every item I offer. ![]() An exceptionally rare and published example of a WW1 British Tank Helmet featured on pages 188 and 189 of the Schiffer Military History Book, “Helmets of the First World War, German, Britain and their allies” by Haselgrove and Radovic.
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