Is this a Helmet of a German flame-throwing soldier, WW1?
Not quite.
According to the Memorial de Verdun it is a breathing apparatus originally used by firefighters and modified, maybe as an experimental model, to protect wearers from smoke, but was never used on the front lines.
A few pictures of similar helmets as used by firemen;
Maybe they experimented with it as a flame-throwers mask but it's all a bit vague so claiming it was a flame-throwers mask is iffy.
Maybe people just assumed it because in the museum it hangs next to a flame throwers kit.
As pic 3 shows they don't seem to have needed it.
And the clincher, this is the description the museum has and an interesting discussion on a WW1 forum that came to the conclusion; greatwarforum.org/topic/290303-g…
Oh look, I found another nice picture to add;
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A few days ago I complained about a Guardian article using a bad photo from a film in an article about Joan Clarke, a Bletchley Park code breaker, but... something much worse might have happened...
I don't think this photo they used is of Joan...
@TeaKayB pointed this out to me and I was stunned, surely not, that would be extraordinary sloppy.
So I looked into it, of course.
For starters the image they used is flipped, here's the full picture as it should look:
Time to look at another photo album in my collection, a tiny one this time with one picture on each page, showing us the adventures of some Dutch girl scouts in the early 1930s.
This Friday the game 'Manor Lord' is coming out, it's a medieval city builder that I've made a modest contribution to as a historical consultant and beta tester for.
I've been very excited about it for a long time and I'm not the only one, it's creating quite a buzz and has ended up on a lot of wishlists.
What I love about it most is that it tries to depict the middle ages in an accurate way, behind the scenes historians, experts & history addicts have been debating the tiniest details.
I think the result is one of the most historically accurate medieval games I've ever played.
#Manorlords
So let's have a sneak peek at it shall we?
First, here's an official video:
Before you start you set up your profile and design your own family crest, look familiar?
This bit alone is SUCH fun, you can fiddle and play with this editor for ages till you get exactly what you want and then you'll see it on the banners in the game!
SUCH FUN!
Sigh.
An account with half a million followers just tweeted that long debunked 'life in the 1500s' nonsense, 2.2 million people have seen it.
So here we go again...