I could never seem to afford the high priced WW2 US, German, Italian or Japanese paratrooper helmets and then I came across this WW2 Australian paratrooper helmet. It wasn't as high priced as the other mentioned countries helmets. It was supposedly used in training only with the British Mark 2 paratrooper helmet worn in combat.

 

 

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There is a name written inside the helmet. There is a fragile orange decal that dates the helmet. The date is in the upper right corner but it is hard to read mine as the decal has deteriorated.

 

 

I found these photographs on the Internet showing Australian paratroopers wearing this helmet in training.

 

 

Nice

 

cant be very common.

Great helmet with very interesting pictures.

 

Tony

Very reminiscent of a dispatch riders helmet.

Never heard of these until now. Great lid and accompanying photos!

As Red Devil said, never seen one before great piece i bet, thank you for posting pictures of it for us, Gerard

Nice Duperite helmet. These were also worn extensively by dispatch riders.