Original British Victorian Royal Warwickshire Officer Blue Cloth Dress Spike Helmet Original Items

Original Item: Only One Available. This is a well used but solid condition Victorian era British Army Officer Blue Cloth Spiked helmet which is complete with it’s ball finial and is missing the scaled chinstrap. The chin strap lugs and spike base ends are all properly adorned with embossed roses. This helmet has gilt brass mounts used on all regular Army helmets.

The front of the helmet has the correct regiment plate for WARWICKSHIRE. Body consists of cork covered with blue wool, trimmed with brass. Liner is calfskin leather and is missing the silk lining. Interior of the front and rear visor is trimmed with fine green dyed leather, with the interior body liner with canvas.

The helmet is in fantastic condition for its age. Showing signs of honest use, and wear from storage and handling over the last 120+ years, but there are some issues. The rear “skirt” is misshapen due to the brass trim missing on the back half of the edge, and the rear brass spine is cracked towards the base. Overall, this is an excellent example that is perfect for the collector of 19th Century British Militaria. Size is approximately US 7 (56cm).

The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, previously titled the 6th Regiment of Foot, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years. The regiment saw service in many conflicts and wars, including the Second Boer War and both the First and Second World Wars. On 1 May 1963, the regiment was re-titled, for the final time, as the Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers and became part of the Fusilier Brigade.

In 1968, by now reduced to a single Regular battalion, the regiment was amalgamated with the other regiments in the Fusilier Brigade – the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) and the Lancashire Fusiliers – into a new large infantry regiment, to be known as the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, becoming the 2nd Battalion of the new regiment.