M16 with interesting camo pattern

[Hans K.]

Hans , it's a great helmet . I'm curious about this photo you posted below ( I love it ) - is it in your possession (if , then again my congratulations)
or you can tell me the source .
best regards
Kornel

Kornel,

This picture has turned up on various forums, so I don't know exactly who originally posted it. It's a cropped picture, and the full original can be seen in Volume I of Haselgrove and Radovic's "History of the Steel Helmet in the First World War". The entire picture shows other helmets in the background painted in different but also unusual patterns.

[Hans K.]

Nice helmet...

not sure if I found the original owner.

Looks like he was killed in action? Robert


http://www.deutsche-ehrenmale.de/ehr...Obersaida.HTML

Soldat Oswald Naumann † 29.06.1917

Thanks for looking it up for me Robert. I have a feeling this is a different soldier, not only because of the rank, but also because the date he fell is likely far too early for a camo helmet. I have to look it up again, but I managed to find a Gefreiter Oswald Naumann who fell in late 1918 and is buried in a French cemetary.

Thanks for the wonderful comments Gents.

HK

Edit: Just looked it up again on the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge and here it is:

Oswald Naumann

Oswald Naumann ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in Le Cateau.

Endgrablage: Block 3 Grab 741

Nachname:Naumann

Vorname:Oswald

Dienstgrad: Gefreiter

Todes-/Vermisstendatum:18.10.1918

[Spanish Freiwillige]

that a very nice lid and thnaks for the photo ref!!

[Kornel R.]

Hello Hans !

Thanks for an answer ! - I really appreciated .

[Don D.]

Perhaps where the unit fought would shed light on the camo design. I imagine there would be a different camo scheme for the Somme vs the Argonne.