WW1 Brodie helmet markings

[Infanteer]

This helmet was picked up on the east coast of Canada recently. The marking on the front is a red circle in front of a horizontal white line. Does anyone have any ideas of it's origin? British, Canadian?????

Cheers, Steve

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-...iemarkings.jpg

[LeeG]

From this it looks like it might be a US helmet with divisional markings (don't know which division). Can you post a photo of the chinstrap bales? The type of bale connection indicates Commonwealth vs US manufacture.

[crown.point]

It's not a US AEF division insignia, and I can't find any CEF insignia that matches either.

It could be British or ANZAC, but I don't have any good references on them.

[Guy]

Can we see the interior please?

Yours, guy.]

[Infanteer]

I don't have the helmet at hand to take a photo of the interior, but it is a British made helmet with the split rivets attaching the chinstrap bales. I have heard from a well known authority on Canadian helmets who also has a Mk1 marked the same as this and he doesn't know what it is either. This may be one of those unofficial small unit markings that you have to be very lucky to identify...

[leigh kitchen]

The senior brigade of British 23 Div (think that was 68 Bde?) wore a system of battle patches consisting of a horizontal rectangle with a central horizontal stripe, a circle superimposed in the centre.
The patch was in different colour combinations for each of the battalions in the brigade, it was worn on the back of the tunic.
The brigade also wore insignia on the helmet, so perhaps this is the helmet insignia of one of the battalions in that brigade?
I may be way off, but that's the best I can come up with.

[Infanteer]

Someone has recently suggested it may belong to an artillery siege battery from the Somme. This is based on possible photographic evidence, but of course the photo is apparently not very clear

[Brodie]

Yeah to me it looks like its a US helmet
i would like to see the inside of the helmet

[Infanteer]

It's definately a British helmet with the split rivets attaching the chinstrap bales... I have a photo this time.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-...ieinterior.jpg