Question single decal tricolour ???relic from D-day
Hi all,
I recently got this from an English chap who picked it up many years back in the area of Ver-Sur-Mere, ( Gold Beach ) half buried in sand near an observation bunker. A nice story that I cannot prove or disprove but the helmet tells it’s own tale. ( the salt air certainly got to half of it ) It is an early M35 with brass rivets and originally had an aluminium liner band.
My questions are… 1) why only the national shield and no arm of service?
2) the colour is a dark black/grey, not an apple green or field grey…. did battery troops have this colour / decal arrangement?
3) the painted number ( 53 i think ) is a garrison number?? - I’ve seen numbers on gas masks for when they were left in barracks but helmets??
I recently got this from an English chap who picked it up many years back in the area of Ver-Sur-Mere, ( Gold Beach ) half buried in sand near an observation bunker. A nice story that I cannot prove or disprove but the helmet tells it’s own tale. ( the salt air certainly got to half of it ) It is an early M35 with brass rivets and originally had an aluminium liner band.
My questions are… 1) why only the national shield and no arm of service?
2) the colour is a dark black/grey, not an apple green or field grey…. did battery troops have this colour / decal arrangement?
3) the painted number ( 53 i think ) is a garrison number?? - I’ve seen numbers on gas masks for when they were left in barracks but helmets??
Still, it has become my favourite relic lid!!
Any help or guidance would be great!
Thanks, Dan
