Hammer

£740

1st VB Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regt.) Attributed Officer’s Home Service Pattern Helmet & Side Cap Attributed to Captain H.M. Clifford of the 1st Volunteer Battalion. A good clean rare example, of the home service pattern helmet, blue cloth material with silver plated furniture, including, chinchain with velvet backing. To the front a Victorian crown regimental helmet plate, to the centre resting upon a blue enamel ground the Regimental device. Also with title scrolls “Sherwood Foresters 1st Volunteer Battalion”. The interior with leather sweatband, this with crimson silk edging. No moth very good shape ... Accompanied by an Officer's field service side cap. This of dark blue material with silvered Regimental Victorian cap badge and buttons. The interior with a paper label ink name "H.M. Clifford" GC ... Also an original photograph of Captain Clifford wearing full dress uniform and holding this helmet ... All contained in a metal home service helmet storage tin. Overall VGC. (4 items) Captain later Major Horace Montague Clifford, resigned his commission 1907. He volunteered during the Great War and served with the 2/5th Bn Sherwood Foresters landing in France in 1917. He was wounded at Kemmel in 1918.