Adrian
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This piece reproduces the experimental M15 Adrian helmet fitted with a facemask, designed by Dr. Polack, a medical officer stationed at Verdun during one of the First World War's longest and bloodiest battles. The added facemask reflects direct battlefield medical experience, an attempt to extend protection beyond the standard Adrian helmet's coverage to guard against the facial wounds so common in trench warfare. Few experimental designs like this saw widespread issue, making surviving examples and faithful reproductions a genuinely unusual window into wartime medical innovation.
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Adrian Helmet, Belgian Model
SKU: AH6141BThe Adrian helmet, first issued to the French Army in 1915, was also adopted by Belgium during the First World War, one of many nations to take up the design in original or modified form. This Belgian model reflects the national variations that emerged as different armies adapted the basic Adrian pattern to their own insignia and manufacturing standards. Belgium's small but determined army fought throughout the war despite the near-total occupation of the country, making Belgian-marked equipment from the period a genuinely significant piece of the nation's wartime history.
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French Adrian Helmet, M15 Pattern
SKU: AH6141The Adrian helmet, designed by Intendant-General August-Louis Adrian and adopted by the French Army in 1915, was the first modern steel field helmet issued in the First World War. Adrian based his design on the helmets worn by Parisian firefighters, adapting it for mass production once France's high command recognised how many casualties were caused by shrapnel and shell fragments in trench warfare. The helmet went on to be adopted, in original or modified form, by dozens of armies around the world, and was famously worn by Winston Churchill while commanding the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers in France in early 1916.
