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Pith Helmet

This modern “Wolseley” Pattern helmet is still used by the Royal Canadian Regiment on the parade ground. Externally it looks little different from the cork helmets that were introduced more than 100 years ago, but in fact it is made of fiberglass!

Cork or Pith?

By Peter Suciu
Nov 12, 2019

A painting of Brevet Major William Stephen Raikes Hodson depicted wearing an air tube-style helmet. By the time of the Indian Mutiny, this style of helmet — the predecessor of the sun / pith helmet — appeared on the battlefield. Hodson raised the irregular light cavalry unit, 4th Horse (Hodson’s Horse) to put down the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The unit still exists today as the 4th Horse Regiment in the Indian Army.

Ellwood and Sons’ Air Tube Helmet

By Peter Suciu
Nov 8, 2019

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