Personal armour
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Personal armour
I guess that this would be an accoutrement (perhaps):
from the Australian War Memorial, Copyright expired.
Caption: England. Soldier modelling Franco-British armour comprising steel cap, splinter goggles and armour to be worn under a tunic. [WW I]
from the Australian War Memorial, Copyright expired.
Caption: England. Soldier modelling Franco-British armour comprising steel cap, splinter goggles and armour to be worn under a tunic. [WW I]
Last edited by Aughnanure on Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:09 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Personal armour
Well.....Halloween is only a couple or three weeks away.
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Re: Personal armour
I believe that armour was worn by WWI tank crews as a defence againts metal splinters showering around the inside of the tank .
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Re: Personal armour
I think you'll find that that kit was private purchase infantry equipment.
Tank crews had enough to do trying to move around in an unsprung box with minimal room, so they wouldn't have wanted to be encumbered with armour.
Apart from helmets (either steel, or the leather/fibre board contraptions) to only protective equipment available was either goggles or a mail screen over the face; and these, I believe, were were primarily to protect the eyes from paint chips, flaked off the interior by bullet inpacts on the outside.
At least the British armour in the first post looks a little lighter than this German items - apparantly modelled by 4 Americans (at a guess)
Tank crews had enough to do trying to move around in an unsprung box with minimal room, so they wouldn't have wanted to be encumbered with armour.
Apart from helmets (either steel, or the leather/fibre board contraptions) to only protective equipment available was either goggles or a mail screen over the face; and these, I believe, were were primarily to protect the eyes from paint chips, flaked off the interior by bullet inpacts on the outside.
At least the British armour in the first post looks a little lighter than this German items - apparantly modelled by 4 Americans (at a guess)
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Re: Personal armour
The Germans also resorted to Long puttees.
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Re: Personal armour
True, but the characters in the photographs all seem to be wearing American style (1908?) breeches, and shirts (not German pattern) and at least two seem to carrying Small Box Respirator bags. In addition, one wears 1910 gaiters and two are holding the American pattern Chauchat automatic rifle (as opposed to the more common French pattern).24626151 wrote:The Germans also resorted to Long puttees.
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Re: Personal armour
Agreed, its the gaiters and others that give it away!Tom-May wrote:True, but the characters in the photographs all seem to be wearing American style (1908?) breeches, and shirts (not German pattern) and at least two seem to carrying Small Box Respirator bags. In addition, one wears 1910 gaiters and two are holding the American pattern Chauchat automatic rifle (as opposed to the more common French pattern).24626151 wrote:The Germans also resorted to Long puttees.
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