BW Para Helmet for opinions please

**James C** · 02-22-2015, 05:55 PM

your very welcome mark and glad to be of help

the only downside even though the items are economical on the pocket is the postage from germany

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 02-22-2015 05:55 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**ruddersrangers44** · 02-22-2015, 06:06 PM

So just for the clarification what is this Helmet actually called or simply known as 1A1 LL OR M71?,The Brendons Helmet site list West German M71 paratrooper Helmet............

**oradour** · 03-13-2015, 05:07 PM

Hi Jake, its a model 1A1 LL (Luft Lande/airborne).....M71 is a collector term which in my book is wrong, more for the Belgian version !
Prost ! Steve.

**Watchdog** · 06-09-2016, 10:44 AM

Good morning gents,

Not much to say about this one but I just couldn't resist it. It has great patina, it is in great shape, it's a large size (unusual in itself) and has a good date on the shell. I thought it is always good to show multiple examples so here it is;

I just need to decide whether to "re-home" the other one

Regards

Mark
PS Can anyone explain the numbers infront of the owners name, are they just (part of) his service number or is there a sub-unit element here?

**James C** · 06-09-2016, 04:37 PM

Great example Mark

i can see why your pleased with it ,what are your thoughts on the penned writing ,owners name or a location ?

**Reibert** · 06-09-2016, 04:57 PM

Hi !

Pretty nice, and, collectible, pot !

**Reibert** · 06-09-2016, 05:01 PM

BTW, the "1A1 LL" became officially "retired" in 1998 !

**Reibert** · 06-09-2016, 05:14 PM

by Watchdog

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... PS Can anyone explain the numbers infront of the owners name, are they just (part of) his service number or is there a sub-unit element here?

2./252 probably means:
2. Kompanie, Fallschirmjägerbataillon 252

**Watchdog** · 06-09-2016, 09:25 PM

by James C

Great example Mark

i can see why your pleased with it ,what are your thoughts on the penned writing ,owners name or a location ?

Thanks James, I know that Heidenreich is a German surname and as far as I am aware there is no place with the name so I believe it to be the owner. The name Roth written on the liner I expect is another but if that was during service one would expect the name Heidenreich to have been expunged.

@ Reibert, yes I was thinking the same given the German practice of expressing unit designations in exactly that way. I was curious because the usual British practice is to mark kit with the last 4 digits of the service number (in my case it was 0737) and the surname.

Regards

Mark
PS I forgot the pic of the liner date which if I remember (I'm not at home right now) is Sept 1968.