£350
A Royal Engineers Volunteers Officers Home Service Helmet early 20th century, dark blue cloth body cork helmet with volunteer pattern officers home service helmet plate, having central scroll blanked, silvered rosette side bosses, cruciform spike base with rosettes and officers fluted spike, leather sweatband and crimson cloth lining to interior, housed in original tin hat box, together with a leather binoculars pouch, pair of white dress gloves and a portapee. * Provenance: Helmet belonging to A.W. Bowerbank, Engineers, later joining C & A Parsons, developed steam turbines for Cunard, then worked on National grid of Canada and later Battersea Power Station.
*Light wear, missing chin strap, tin with rust, overall good.
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