Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1918 — Lives Saved by Steel Helmet. [ARTICLE]

Lives Saved by Steel Helmet.

The British soldier, happy-go-lucky as he is, has come to recognize the value of fils stedl helmet. Most of us who have been in action in' France have stories to tell of our own or other men’s lives saved by “tin hats,” “tin lids," or “battle bowlers.” A brother officer of mine has worn for something like two years a steel helmet with a dent In it as big as a small potato—a souvenir of a small lump of shell which knocked him off his feet one afternoon in the Ypres salient. I have seen a helmet in the rim of which a machine gun bullet had cut a clean nick. The wearer of that helmet never knew he had been struck until he doffed his “tin hat.”—London Times.