Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. The Household Cavalry is made up of the two most senior regiments in the British Army: the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals. It is divided into the Household Cavalry Regiment, stationed at Kiwi Barracks in Wiltshire, and the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, which is garrisoned at Hyde Park Barracks in London.
The soldiers of the Household Cavalry have acted as the monarch’s guardians since 1660. It is also the public face of the British Army both in the UK and abroad. The Household Cavalry Regiment has an active operational role which sees soldiers serve in armored fighting vehicles, handling the nation’s conflicts.
The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment carries out ceremonial duties on state and royal occasions, such as Trooping the Colour. This is the regiment that accompanied the Queen’s coffin at the London parade.
This is an absolutely beautiful, genuine British Life Guards Parade helmet and comes with the partial original leather liner and white genuine horsehair plume. This example is completely missing the chinstrap & chinscales, but this doesn’t affect the overall beauty of the helmet. The helmet does show use and long time neglected storage and is in need of a good cleaning.
The liner is very worn but the fingers are mostly retained, and the leather liner band is still fully intact. One of the four rivets that holds the helmet spike in place is missing, and there are some cracks to the interior metal. The plume is also losing some strands but is still very well-retained for its age.
A fantastic example of a very rare helmet, ready for further research and display.
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