Original German WWII Reissued Heer Single Decal WWI Austrian M17 Helmet with Partial Liner - Size 66 Shell Lanchester SMG On 18 October

On 18 October

authorized in 1824 to commemorate the victory of St Lucia in 1778 when men of the Fifth Regiment were supposed to have taken white feathers from the hats of fallen French soldiers

There is a single wooden securing peg still present

Bavaria had allied itself to Austria in the 1866 European war against Prussia but had then allied itself to Prussia for the 1870 Franco-Prussian War

but nothing catastrophic

Original German WWII Reissued Heer Single Decal WWI Austrian M17 Helmet with Partial Liner - Size 66 Shell Lanchester SMG On 18 OctoberOriginal Item: Only One Available. Austria Hungary purchased about 416,000 German helmets from November 1916 until the end of the war and also began its own licensed production starting in May 1917. Around a million Stahlhelm of all variants were issued until the end of the war. The Austrian M17 helmet was similar to the German M16 but was colored golden brown (known as Isonzo braun), had a cloth chinstrap and had the chinstrap rivet located higher up