Impression sketch
of Brodie versus Adrian -
by Jamie. Original images can be seen at: <http://thebrodiehelmet.weebly.com/war-office-pattern.html>
<https://www.worldwarsupply.com/cart/French-Adrian-Helmet> [Accessed: 23 March 2016]
Learning by
experience of wearers
From the French
casque, designers
Of the British
Brodie then perfected
Their final
design to be distributed.
Taking over from
the War Office,
Ministry of
Munitions made articles -
Final idea
combining various designs,
Within weeks from
different origins.
By compacted time
a scientific evolution
Was described, in
design of effective
Headpieces formed
from hardest steel,
To have
circumference of a narrow lip.
A fault detected from the French casque
Was the higher
dome, allowing cool air
To collect at the
top - the fit being tighter
So the metal
pressed on wearer’s head.
Therefore the
Brodie was constructed
With a lower
pitch than French, made
To make a lower
target - smooth steel
Without projections or any weak flutings.
Made at Armaments
House, developed
A comfortable fit
- rubber studs in dome
Absorbed any
shock, with a double lining
Of felt and
wadding against wearers head.
The wadding would act to absorb blood
With some
antiseptic, should a bullet
Cut through metal
to cause scalp wound -
While a chinstrap held helmet to the head.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916. The
British Helmet. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 23 March 1916. P.9. Col.6. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12200314/Daily-Telegraph-March-23-1916.html
[Accessed: 23 March 2016].
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 23 March 2016).
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