AMERICAN WWI NORTH RUSSIA REGIMENT 339 BRODIE HELMET, IDENTIFIED.

An extremely rare helmet from WWI being the American produced Brodie helmet, minus its inner lining and strap. White painted with stencilled across the crown ‘RUSSIA’. This helmet belonged to Joseph Patrick Curry, a Sergeant in the 339th Infantry Regiment, complete with helmet are his identity tags, a photograph of his grave which on the headstone gives his Regimental details and a ‘1958’ dated certificate for Curry on his burial in Massachusetts. Also ‘Curry’ is hand applied in red indelible ink to the inside lower rim of the helmet. The 339th were nicknamed Detroit’s Own also The Polar Bears. The U.S. contingent comprised of approximately 5,000 troops that landed in Arkangel Russia as part of the allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. It fought the Red Army, surrounding the region from September 1918 through to July 1919. Very interesting historical part of the United States Army in WWI. On the journey back from Russia many members of the regiment using the same stencil and completed the Russia stencil over their already white painted helmets.

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