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248 - HEADGEAR. 1915-model Adrian helmet for a Spahi officer, hand-painted in dark khaki, with a crescent-shaped front insignia, Type 2 inner liner in brown and black leather, 2 adjustment tabs, braided officer’s chin strap, with a brass crescent inscribed “Soldier of the Great War” and engraved “Lieutenant WEYERS – 1st Spahi Regiment,” Also included, from the same source, is a pair of Spahis squadron commander’s epaulets in gold braid with madder-red lining (one missing from one epaulet), a black-threaded saber strap with a gold tassel. ABE Philippe-Henri-Louis Weyers (1877–1948) spent most of his career in Morocco; he was commissioned as a lieutenant on active duty in March 1915, at that time with the Moroccan Spahis Marching Regiment, then with the 1st Spahis in 1914, and subsequently with the Senegalese Spahis Squadron in Morocco in 1915; he became a captain in 1924 in the remount unit.
HEADGEAR. 1915-model Adrian helmet for a Spahi officer, hand-painted in dark khaki, with a crescent-shaped front insignia, Type 2 inner liner in brown and black leather, 2 adjustment tabs, braided officer’s chin strap, with a brass crescent inscribed “Soldier of the Great War” and engraved “Lieutenant WEYERS – 1st Spahi Regiment,” Also included, from the same source, is a pair of Spahis squadron commander’s epaulets in gold braid with madder-red lining (one missing from one epaulet), a black-threaded saber strap with a gold tassel. ABE Philippe-Henri-Louis Weyers (1877–1948) spent most of his career in Morocco; he was commissioned as a lieutenant on active duty in March 1915, at that time with the Moroccan Spahis Marching Regiment, then with the 1st Spahis in 1914, and subsequently with the Senegalese Spahis Squadron in Morocco in 1915; he became a captain in 1924 in the remount unit.