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    Cawnpores and Bombay Bowlers

    I have strayed well passed my cutoff date of 1914 with my foray into Wolseleys and now I have a Cawnpore Tent Club helmet so thought I would start a topic on these pith helmets. This one is of the Royal Armoured Car School and is dated 1927.
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    Australian "pith" Helmets

    Here is my latest helmet. It is a New South Wales Foreign Service helmet to the NSW Infantry, although since it was worn at home as well, I'm not sure about calling it a Foreign Service helmet but that is the style. Anyway it features the "Badge of the Colony" plate which was designed by James...
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    Strange Tin

    Does anyone know what type of headdress the large storage/transit tin would have been designed for. The photos show it against a normal Home/Foreign Service Helmet tin. It belongs to a friend and contained an Australian badged FSH of normal size so there was plenty of room! Stuart
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    US Forage or Visor Cap

    Can anyone help me identify this US forage/visor cap. I bought it many years ago via a postal auction but have no details (not sure I ever did but it was acquired locally and was cheap). It, along with a US M1895 Chaplain's Visor cap, are the only foreigners in my collection. It is stamped...
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