Original British WWII Named Royal Air Force Pith Sun Helmet with Transit Tin by Gieves Hotchkiss .303 The original design was so

The original design was so sound and the quality so high that it continued in service for nearly 50 years

it could quickly exhaust its ammunition supply

2mm straight box magazine

The Special Air Service together with the Special Boat Service (SBS)

On all but one sample

Original British WWII Named Royal Air Force Pith Sun Helmet with Transit Tin by Gieves Hotchkiss .303 The original design was soOriginal Item: Only One Available. Right out of the family attic! In splendid original condition A Royal Airforce Wolseley Pattern Foreign Service Helmet, by Gieves Limited, Royal Naval Outfitters, in its original cloth bag and painted steel box. This has it all: complete with leather headband and chinstrap it retains a substantial cloth pugaree. A pugaree is the cloth wrap, which still bears it's unit's color flash to the left side. The unit flash is