WW2 British Home Front American Ambulance Great Britain MK-II Brodie Helmet 1940 For Sale

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WW2 British Home Front American Ambulance Great Britain MK-II Brodie Helmet 1940:
$631.79

A humanitarian organisation based in London

during the

Battle of Britain in 1940,

American Ambulance Great Britain

was created by a small group of

neutral Americans living in London as war spread across Europe.

Eventually operating from 17 stations across the country

and funded by Americans living in Britain & back home in the States,

AAGB

supplied ambulances to the British Home Front

that were driven by British women volunteers

aged between 18 & 45, plus a number of girls recruited from

The Women\'s Mechanised Transport Corps (WMTC)

and

The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY)

With medical & driver training primarily taking place in Leeds,

the AAGB crews wore FANY uniforms with crossed

American/UK flagson their sleeves and

they drove grey-painted American converted

Chevrolets & Packard

cars that also exhibited crossed American/UK flags.

As a vital back-up to the UK ambulances in service during

The Blitz

AAGB\'s main rolewas to react to Luftwaffe air-raids on London,

and the UK\'s other main cities in which they were based, to transport

the resulting civilian casualties to hospital .

In a good issued & used condition

though with a veneer of all-over rust,the letters

A.A.G.B

were hand-painted in white within a blue panel to the front

over a factory-finished battleship grey paint job

both inside and out.

Still with its original liner with black shoe-lace & elasticated chinstrap,

this helmet shellis clearly marked on the underside of the rim

BMB 7 1940

(Briggs Motor Bodies Ltd of Dagenham 1939-1945)

whilst the small-sized rexine liner is also stamped

BMB

I

1940

6 3/4

With less than 400 young women recruited into

American Ambulance Great Britain

this surviving,well-used Brodie has to be considered

amongst the rarest of

British Home Front Brodie steel helmets from World War Two.

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