Mk II Brodie Helmet WW2 British Armed Forces. All ranks. Photograph

Mk II Brodie Helmet WW2 British Armed Forces. All ranks. The Brodie helmet is a steel combat helmet designed and patented in London in 1915 by Latvian inventor John Leopold Brodie (Leopolds Janno Braude). A modified form of it became the Helmet, Steel, Mark I in Britain and the M1917 Helmet in the US. Colloquially, it was called the shrapnel helmet, battle bowler, Tommy helmet, tin hat, and in the United States the doughboy helmet. It was also known as the dishpan hat, tin pan hat, pie plate, washbasin, and Kelly helmet. The Imperial German Army soldiers called it the Salatschüssel (salad bowl).

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