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The British Helmet in World War I
John L. Brodie had invented and patented a design in 1915, called the Helmet, steel, Mark one or ‘Brodie helmet’ after its inventor.
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The Brodie pattern was used in the Canadian Army up until the late 1960’s. I remember my dad wearing it when he was in the Militia. It was replaced by the American styled steel helmet of the WW2-Korea-Vietnam era which is the one I wore. I heard the old timers talk affectionately about their old Brodies and how much heavier the “new” ones were.
These helmets were known as Shrapnel helmets and were never described as bullet proof,one of the films on this page is titled ,the Great ww1 Helmet Mystery,well worth a watch.
Hey simple history do the French Adrian helmet that's the only ww1 helmet that you haven't done yet
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Do Adrian Helmet history
Why does it look like metal hat?
Funny, none of said helmets provided any protection for me in battlefield 1
I know why they had that style,
he had a plate and it caved in
Please do a video on the French Adrian helmet. Please.
Like so they can see this. Thank you.
And that’s how the Bonnie hat was invented
Plis make a video about GERMAN'S spiky helmet
PAYTENTED.
Why does the british name.every thing with MARK name
Chrichel mk 1
Challanger mk 3
Fury mk 2
Damn it. I go to such a video about British helmets and then suddenly an advertising of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus.
The Brodie helmet is MY NAME
Brits: A steel hat
Russians: 0:10 hold my vodka
Virgin Brodie vs Chad Stahlhelm vs Thad Pickelhaube
My name is brodie
Can you do the Adrian helmet
I have a replica of the American copy of the Mark I
The best helmet is kitchen bowl
I once read that the main reason for this design was to protect the soldier from overhead, air burst artillery. Story was the British command in 1914-15 noted that a large number of debilitating and fatal wounds had been generated by tiny splinters of shell piercing through the tops of men's soft hats/heads. BTW: DO A SPOT ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE FRENCH WW I UNIFORM. "Le pantaloon rouge c'est La France!" See Tuchman's "Guns of August" for a darkly funny write up on this.
british helmet is a dumb design, It doesn't protect your Lower head
Why didn’t they just use a book of projectile protection VI?
In Flanders Fields…
Gotta be one of the worst looking helmets i've seen lmao, "The Trench Dinner Plate"
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I have one of those that is real
Looks like everything is "Mark" in Britain
Bruh it’s a plate on his head lol
0:52 that guy’s poker face is just making me laugh so hard
P A N I C H A T
1:53 General said it was my turn on the Brodie Helmet
France: built the FT-17 tank. United States: took the FT-17 and put on a slightly different turret and called it the M1917 tank. Britain: makes the Brodie helmet. United States: made the exact same helmet and called it the M1917.
That's just the proof of purchase
If i was born in ww1 i can make helmet with face protection like russians one, trust me 15% from casualties of ww1 was due to shot in face not upper head part. this 15% teens can survive and finish the war more faster and come back to they home on theyr feet not betwen 4 wood planks.