Original U.S. Indian Wars 6th Infantry Regiment M-1881 Blue Cloth Spiked Pith Helmet With White Plume by Horstmann - Dated 1902 Spanish Flags Soissons and Meuse-Argonne campaign

Soissons and Meuse-Argonne campaign

without meeting any resistance

where he was severely wounded on March 5

following the principle that “one hand finds the other

This is a killer pair of items

Original U.S. Indian Wars 6th Infantry Regiment M-1881 Blue Cloth Spiked Pith Helmet With White Plume by Horstmann - Dated 1902 Spanish Flags Soissons and Meuse-Argonne campaignOriginal Item. Only One Available. Much like our European cousins in the 1880s, the U. S. Army started to adopted spiked pith helmets, often in white, with all brass mounts and occasionally plumes. These saw active service in the Spanish American War of 1898 especially in the tropical climate in Cuba. The helmet is dated 1902 on the underside of the leather sweatband. This is not the type of helmet that was worn in the field, but instead one intended