John Leopold Brodie’s simple design for a steel helmet during the Great War came to represent the troops of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. But the helmet the Germans called the “salad bowl” also played a role in a defining conflict of the post-war era. It is history that deserves to be remembered.
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