The Brodie helmet is a steel combat helmet designed and patented in London in 1915 by John Leopold Brodie. In modified form it became the Helmet, steel, Mark I in Britain and the M1917 Helmet in the U.S. Colloquially, it was called the shrapnel helmet, Tommy helmet, tin hat, and in the United...
"On September 25 1915, you were killed on the first day of the Battle of Loos..."
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Commemorated on a family memorial in Burslem Cemetery, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
Lance sergeant 2951, 1/5th North Staffordshire Regiment killed in action at Hullugh, France 13th October 1915 aged 25. Only son of George William and Mary Jane of 20 Albert Terrace Wolstanton, Stoke on Trent...
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