5th (Cinque Ports) VB Royal Sussex Regiment Officer's Home S...

Hammer

£480

5th (Cinque Ports) VB Royal Sussex Regiment Officer's Home Service Pattern Helmet A rare attributed 1902-1908 example of an Officer’s Home Service Pattern blue cloth helmet, complete with silvered metal cross piece, spike and rose bosses supporting a velvet backed silvered chin chain. To the front a King’s Crown helmet plate to the centre the Cinque Ports device set against scarlet cloth A title strap is embossed “Royal Sussex Regiment.”. The interior with a leather sweatband and silk edging. The helmet remains in fine condition, with minor surface mothing to the scarlet backing badge cloth. Retains original fitted helmet plate. ... Accompanied by the original metal storage tin retailed through J & B Pearse & Co of London and brass name plate "T.A.S. MASTERS ESQ 5th (CINQUE PORTS) Bn ROYAL SISSEX REGT". (2 ITEMS) Captain Thomas Alfred Septimus Masters was promoted to the rank of Captain in August 1909 and landed in France in 1917 earning the Territorial War Medal, he was later attached to the Royal Engineers.