African Tropical Hat

[António Fragoeiro]

Hi, i want to share with you, something special.
Its an handmade tropical hat, made for my father by a servent of my parents.
It was made in 1961, right in the begining of the war in Angola.
He kept it until today.
Cheers.
Nuno

[stuka f]

Great helmet, I lost my fathers one, who was in Afrika too from 1959 till 1975.
But I have a small collection pith helmets to replace the loss!
;-)
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[António Fragoeiro]

Great helmet, I lost my fathers one, who was in Afrika too from 1959 till 1975.
But I have a small collection pith helmets to replace the loss!
;-)
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Hi Kris, where in Africa was you father?
To bad you lost your father`s hat.
Cheers.
Nuno

[talltom]

very nice nuno it looks nice some great personal history attached to it as well
thanks for sharing

tom

[António Fragoeiro]

very nice nuno it looks nice some great personal history attached to it as well
thanks for sharing

tom

Thank you Tom.
Cheers.
Nuno

[Jerry B]

Great helmet, I lost my fathers one, who was in Afrika too from 1959 till 1975.
But I have a small collection pith helmets to replace the loss!
;-)
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Great helmet with family history, you can't beat that.


Hey Kris, did you ever post your piths.

Regards,


Jerry

[stuka f]

Hi Kris, where in Africa was you father?
To bad you lost your father`s hat.
Cheers.
Nuno

In 1959 he was a Commissaire de Territoire* at Lisala (Congo).
Those uniforms are very hard to find, I have been looking for years now!
After the troubles of 1960 he got back with me and my Mum, but no uniform thise time, the pith helmet was also abolished!!
From that time he and we did nearly every land under the equator from the west coast to the east coast.

*commissaire de territoire at the time of Belgian Congo is a police officer, but also a military officer and a judge at the same time for minor crimes.

[stuka f]

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Hey Kris, did you ever post your piths.

Regards,


Jerry

They are here some where.
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[Jerry B]

They are here some where.
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I'll look for them later, when I get back from work.

Regards,

Jerry

[stuka f]

I'll look for them later, when I get back from work.

Regards,

Jerry

Did you find them?
Haha! ;-)
Here is one;
Belgian Public Weermacht (that is not the one my father should have had!!)
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