Belgium lightweight officers helmet
Article about: Hi guys could do with some help on this one. Sold to me as a Belgium lightweight officers helmet but when I got to checking around the Internet the colour black in high gloss on the inside o
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agree the above. It was an alu lightweight helmet fot Gendarmerie once, but mesed with.
Postwar repaint for sure, and the liner is made of some kind of erzats material, never used in Off lightweight helmets.
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The only problem : inside I see Soldier....
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it's my believe, but not confirmed yet!!! that these type of liners (oil cloth) are not used in militaire service before '45. A whole buch of these m31 helmets turned up some years ago, all with a so called erzatz oil cloth liner, and in very poor quality of paint, most of them had lots of suface rust. As for now we think these are early post '45 helmets, and most probably only used in civil services, even in kaki.
the only oil cloth liners seen in post '45 helmets are civil helmets, and the only helmet produced during German occupation was a very rare M31 variant, also with an oil cloth liner, and only used by red cross members.
I have no real explanation for the writing in the liner, only that it is not from that helmet for sure.
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on another note!!! maybe it's a French liner? but I have no knowledge in the French liner variations.
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