Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, 24 March 1945

The Royal Armoured Corps helmet is a

combat helmet A combat helmet or battle helmet is a type of helmet. It is a piece of personal armor designed specifically to protect the head during combat. Modern combat helmets are mainly designed to protect from shrapnel and fragments, offer some protec ...

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

origin worn by Armoured Troops. As with the similarly shaped HSAT, it was initially manufactured by Briggs Motor Bodies at Dagenham. It was introduced in

WW2 World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

and was issued to commonwealth countries in the post-1945 era up to the

Falklands War The Falklands War ( es, link=no, Guerra de las Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial de ...

. The RAC helmets came with the same suspension and liner from the

Brodie helmet The Brodie helmet is a steel combat helmet designed and patented in London in 1915 by Latvian inventor John Leopold Brodie ( lv, Leopolds Janno Braude). A modified form of it became the Helmet, Steel, Mark I in Britain and the M1917 Helmet in ...

s and later the elasticated suspension and liner from the MkIII helmet. Many were converted to use as a Paratrooper Helmet. The Royal Armoured Corps helmet had the same shape, as did the helmets used by dispatch riders.

Users

* * * Used by Canadian Tankers attached to British Armoured divisions

References

External links

Combat helmets of the United Kingdom World War II military equipment of the United Kingdom British Army equipment Military equipment introduced from 1945 to 1949 {{armour-stub