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WW1 French M1915 Infantry Adrian Helmet
WW1 French M1915 Infantry Adrian Helmet
Nice condition french Adrian M15 helmet, part liner, no chinstrap is present
Helmet comes complete with its RF badge (Republique Francaise)
Helmet also has a some of its original paintwork, greeny blue , which has darkened down over 100 years. There are no holes , this is a very sound clean helmet.
WW1 French M1915 Infantry Adrian Helmet
Nice condition french Adrian M15 helmet, part liner, no chinstrap is present
Helmet comes complete with its RF badge (Republique Francaise)
Helmet also has a some of its original paintwork, greeny blue , which has darkened down over 100 years. There are no holes , this is a very sound clean helmet.
The Adrian helmet (French: Casque Adrian) was an influential design of combat helmet originally produced for the French Army during World War I. Its original version, the M15, was the first standard helmet of the French Army and was designed when millions of French troops were engaged in trench warfare, and head wounds from the falling shrapnel generated by indirect fire became a frequent cause of battlefield casualties. Introduced in 1915, it was the first modern steel helmet[1][2] and it served as the basic helmet of many armies well into the 1930s. These were initially issued to infantry soldiers, in modified form they were also issued to cavalry and tank crews. A subsequent version, the M26, was used during World War II.
At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, soldiers in the French Army wore the standard kepi cap, which provided no protection against injury. The early stages of trench warfare proved that even basic protection of the head would result in a significantly lower mortality rate among front-line soldiers. By the beginning of 1915, a rudimentary steel skull-cap (calotte métallique, cervelière) was being issued to be worn under the kepi.[3]
