Original U.S. WWI Scarce Named 14th Engineers Camouflage Painted M1917 Doughboy Helmet - Complete - Among First Troops to Arrive at the Front Crimean War the Home Defense Forces Group

the Home Defense Forces Group consisted of A Teams (Operational Detachment) and B Teams

This marking is also found on the lower feed tray

A wonderful example of a helmet that saw use during the end of WWI up into the early years of WWII

General Anthony McAuliffe

and has all gilt brass fittings

Original U.S. WWI Scarce Named 14th Engineers Camouflage Painted M1917 Doughboy Helmet - Complete - Among First Troops to Arrive at the Front Crimean War the Home Defense Forces GroupOriginal Item. One of a Kind. The 14th Engineers were, along with the 11th and 12th Engineers, the very first troops of the United States to arrive at the Front during World War I, and among the last to leave. They spent most of their service attached to the Sixth British Corps, who formed an unbreakable bond with these men from New England. The 14th Engineers first entered the fray on August 21st, 1917 in the Arras Bapume Sector, building & repairing