Cool Order Football Helmets images
Some cool order football helmets images:
Pith helmets & Football strips
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I cannot help smiling every time I see this photo. Another of my father’s Army photos from 30′s India with the Cheshire Regiment. As with them all, I know nothing of what, where, when or why. I can only assume these squaddies are my Dad’s pals enjoying themselves. At least three have been playing football because they are still wearing football boots laced in the old way – long laces tied under the instep then round the ankle. It is possible my Dad is the second right because photos of him in those days always show a broadly grinning young man enjoying life (he was a chain smoker as well and that chap is the only one with a cigarette.) But don’t you love those pith helmets?? It is interesting because almost ever photo of troops doing something shows them wearing the helmets. It was either a rigorously enforced general order or else they really did feel better under them.
Yes, from a different world but great to look at.
it ain’t half hot mum!!
Thank you Ken and Midcheshireman.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/38136824@N08] You enjoyed that programme as well??
big smile, british humor for sure
very much so
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/36783643@N05] Thank you. I hope so. I’m pleased to say that I think I can see that big grin on my son’s face as well
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Fun, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose.
That’s a wonderful picture.
Thank you. It still makes me smile
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My dad, Thomas Welsh (1910 – 1970) was with the 1st Battalion, The (22nd) Cheshire Regiment, in India in 1933 and he also wore a pith helmet. There are a couple of photos of him and his army pals on my photostream and there are still a few more in the family album.
Thank you. Those look interesting photos and I have a few which look similar – at least as far as this loose dress code goes
) I guess they would have served at the same time although, in a full battalion, they may never have known each other. I have an official group photo showing my father in the Signals Section at Landi Kotal in 1933 ( and another, still in the Signals Section although it is of the wining football team, in 1935 but it doesn’t say where it is.) They have names on them but none of your Dad. Maybe they are both in that "Colours Presentation" large photo in my photostream. Have you ever tried to get hold of his service record and, if so, was it easy??
No, I never tried to obtain his service record. He fought all the way through World War Two as well. He never spoke much about the war, but I know he fought at El Alamein. I have two large group photos taken in India. One is undated, but has "Shalom, Photographers, Lucknow" stamped on the back. The other, taken at a different location, has a sign on it in front of the men that says "Demonstration Platoon, 1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment, S.A.S. Ahmednager, 1937-1938". They seem to be demonstrating machine guns. All the faces are very clear on the photos because they are not wearing their pith helmets. I will scan those and put them up on my Photostream tomorrow.
To be in the hot sun all day without a hat is insanity. I’m sure the helmets are practical rather than adherence to the rules.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/35455749@N06] I’ll watch out for those. My father was in Belgium but avoided Dunkirk because he was ill in a rear hospital and got out via Cherbourg. Never left the country again. The group photos show heliograph instruments with the men and I know they were still used because my dad helped set up a new distance record – but I cannot find what it was.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/51809917@N00] I don’t doubt you are correct. There are certainly a lot of shots where the men are wearing them.
I wore a pith helmet last summer in Mexico and was glad I had it. You dip them in water and they keep your head cool a long time.
Yes, my dad was in Belgium as well during the war. He went to see the CinemaScope film "A Dog of Flanders", in 1961, starring David Ladd and Donald Crisp, because it was all filmed entirely on location in Holland and Belgium and it looked very colourful and he knew the locations from when he was there during the war. The two large group photos where none of the men were wearing their pith helmets were photographed on a dull day (the sun wasn’t always shining, even in India) and I reckon they didn’t need to wear them while the photos were taken.