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Hello Fellow Forum Members, My how time fly's, the first quarter of 2024 is coming to a close! I thought it appropriate to share this quarters newest acquisitions and additions to my British military headdress collection. These are new pieces to my collection added in January, February and...

Hello to all, I am very excited to share with the Forum members the latest addition to my British Army dragoon helmet collection. I had the very good luck to acquire an extremely rare dragoon helmet (less than 30 of these helmets were made) attributed to an officer of the NORTHAMPTONSHIRE...

Hello Fellow Collectors, 2023 is rapidly coming to an end and a new year around the corner and a new and exciting year of collecting. I want to take just a few minutes to post and share with my fellow forum members the latest additions to my British militaria collection, items added since my...

Hello all, These two Victorian era British Army home service helmets arrived this past week. Both are volunteer officer's home service helmets, hence their all-silver fittings and front helmet plates. The first home service helmet is an extremely rare helmet to a volunteer officer of the 2nd...

Hello all... newest additions to my collection of British Army infantry officer's home service helmet plates worn between 1878 and 1900... again, regular army battalion/regiment plates are in gilt/gold and volunteer battalions/regiments are in silver... Helmet Plate attributed to an officer...

As a follow-up to my last post featuring my officers 1878 pattern home service helmet to the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and a couple of the regiments associated officers helmet plates, I thought it might be of interest to the Forum members to showcase the variety of helmet plates worn by...

CONTINUED FROM BRITISH OFFICERS HOME SERVICE HELMET PLATES 1878-1901 A SAMPLING PART ONE, PLEASE BE SURE TO LOOK AT THE HELMET PLATES IN PART ONE WHICH ALSO CONTAINS THE INTRODUCTION TO BOTH POSTS: Helmet Plate attributed to The Essex Regiment, 2nd Volunteer Battalion, all silver plate...

It has been several months since I have posted any of the British dragoon helmets in my collection here on the “Forum”. For this post I have opted for something of aa bit of a departure from my usual dragoon helmet posts. As many of the helmet featured on the Pickelhaube Forum are German...

This post, number 9, highlights another helmet from my collection belonging to a very small, short lived (approximately twenty-two months) and obscure unit in the Volunteer force of the British Army. This 1847 pattern helmet is to an officer of the Lancashire Mounted Rifle Volunteers. The unit...

This new post, number 8, highlights a brief history of the Governor General’s Body Guard (of Canada) and show cases an 1871 pattern dragoon troopers’ dragoon helmet currently house in my collection as worn until the regiments’ amalgamation in 1936. The Governor General's Body Guard was a Royal...

The subject of this post, number 7, is a brief history of the Essex Yeomanry, through the end of World War One and an associated 1871 pattern officer’s Essex Regiment full dress dragoon helmet from my dragoon helmet collection owned by Major Andrew Roddick, acing second-in-command of the Essex...

This post focuses on an 1871 pattern troopers' helmet to the 2nd County of London, Westminster Dragoons regiment. The 2nd County of London, Westminster Dragoons was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army reserve located in Central London. Its lineage is continued by one of the Royal Yeomanry's...

Hello all! As some of you on the Forum know from viewing my previous posts here on the Forum, my primary collecting focus is British Victorian and Edwardian cavalry/yeomanry helmets. I have in my possession three pieces, medals/bar from the German Empire period that don't fit in with by...

Hello all! As some of you on the Forum know, my primary collecting focus is British Victorian and Edwardian cavalry/yeomanry helmets. I have in my possession three pieces, medals/bar from the German Empire period that don't fit in with by collecting interest. I have a Dutchy of Baden Order of...

For this post I am showcasing two 1871 pattern trooper or other ranks dragoon helmets from my collection. The first helmet s a helmet worn by the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bay’s) and the second helmet is to the 3rd (Prince of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards. For these Forum members not overly...

This is my fourth post on the Forum highlighting the British dragoon/cavalry helmets that make up my collection. In this post I am highlighting the two “Queen’s Own Royal Staffordshire Yeomanry” helmets. The “Queen’s Own Royal Staffordshire Yeomanry” adopted the 1847 or Albert pattern dragoon...

Hello all! In this new post showcasing the British and Commonwealth regular army and yeomanry helmets in my cavalry helmet collection I have these two 6th Dragoon Guards (The Carabinieris) helmets. The first helmet pictured is an 1848 Albert pattern troopers' helmet and the second helmet...

Hello All, Shown below are three more dragoon helmets from my collection of British and Commonwealth regular army and yeomanry cavalry regimental helmets. The first helmet is to the Princess Louise's (Canadian) Dragoon Guards. Shown is a 5th Princess Louise's Dragoon Guards 1871 Pattern...

I am new to this forum, this being my first post. I was pleased to see a fellow British helmet collector displaying his collection here and very much inspired by "Chinstrap's" collection and thought I would share some of the British Dragoon helmets from the yeomanry, regular army, and...