Greetings everyone. I live in Alaska, and have a strong interest in the Aleutian campaign, where Canadian forces participated with Americans against the Japanese. This is my first posting.
I will post some Canadian memorabilia from Kiska later, but right now I need everyone's help in learning more about this helmet that I procured a while back. I have been told that it has a Canadian liner, but the 1940 shell is British. It is rather unique in that it has green and brown paint in a camouflage pattern and what appears to be an RAF hand-painted insignia.
I have an interest in Little Norway, where Norwegian flyers were trained during the war. I have several acquaintances from my time living in Norway that served in the RAF or Coastal Command as aircrew that have fond memories of their time in Canada.
I found a picture of a period book on Little Norway with a helmet that seems to have a similar camouflage pattern to the one I own.
Can anyone enlighten me as to whether this helmet could have been used by the RAF or affiliate RNAF or RCAF during the war? Please forgive my ignorance as I mainly collect Japanese, American and German headgear. I picked this up from an American seller on Ebay a while back.
Thank you.
Scott
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf110](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf110.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf210](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf210.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf310](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf310.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf410](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf410.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf510](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf510.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf610](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf610.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf710](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf710.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf810](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf810.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf910](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf910.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf1010](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf1010.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf1110](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf1110.jpg)
I will post some Canadian memorabilia from Kiska later, but right now I need everyone's help in learning more about this helmet that I procured a while back. I have been told that it has a Canadian liner, but the 1940 shell is British. It is rather unique in that it has green and brown paint in a camouflage pattern and what appears to be an RAF hand-painted insignia.
I have an interest in Little Norway, where Norwegian flyers were trained during the war. I have several acquaintances from my time living in Norway that served in the RAF or Coastal Command as aircrew that have fond memories of their time in Canada.
I found a picture of a period book on Little Norway with a helmet that seems to have a similar camouflage pattern to the one I own.
Can anyone enlighten me as to whether this helmet could have been used by the RAF or affiliate RNAF or RCAF during the war? Please forgive my ignorance as I mainly collect Japanese, American and German headgear. I picked this up from an American seller on Ebay a while back.
Thank you.
Scott
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf110](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf110.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf210](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf210.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf310](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf310.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf410](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf410.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf510](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf510.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf610](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf610.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf710](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf710.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf810](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf810.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf910](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf910.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf1010](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf1010.jpg)
![British RAF camo helmet with insignia and Canadian liner Raf1110](https://i.servimg.com/u/f11/17/72/23/69/raf1110.jpg)