The Brodie helmet is a steel combat helmet designed and patented in London in 1915 by John Leopold Brodie. In modified form it became the Helmet, steel, Mark I in Britain and the M1917 Helmet in the U.S. Colloquially, it was called the shrapnel helmet, Tommy helmet, tin hat, and in the United...
I bought this card in a local (Sussex) antique shop. The shop owner buys on eBay, so it could have come from anywhere.
The only identification on it is "Overton brothers" written on the back.
They look so very young.
Would love to identify them and find out more about them.
The remains of a New Zealand soldier killed in World War I have been identified more than a century after his death.
Excavations of a Western Front battlefield have uncovered the remains, and remarkably well-preserved possessions, of Henry John Innes Walker.
The area - in the West Flanders...
Oblt. O.G. la Rosée's epitaph writing in Sternwald, 1914
Es ruhen in diesem Grabe vier, Nimm auf sie Herr zu Dir. Sie sind vom Leibregiment, Das weder Furcht noch Feigheit kennt. Es waren vier tapf're Helden, Laß ihnen nichts entgelten. Sie taten treulich ihre Pflicht Und scheuten die Gefahren...
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