Bismark in a pickelhaube
Wednesday 2nd June 1915: Private Charles Carr, 2nd Bedfords,
writing home to Biggleswade says: “Pity you are not allowed to send German
helmets home; it would be nice for you walking out on Sundays, wouldn’t it? I
could have had several the other day. You see we asked them in a persuasive voice
(of steel bayonets) to move on, and they did so. Therefore we gained ground and
sausage”(1).
Source: Bedfordshire Times 4th June
1915
(1) 8744
Private Charles Carr, aged 27, was killed in action on 7th December 1917 and is
buried, appropriately enough, in Bedford House Cemetery just outside Ypres. The distinctive spiked German helmet was known as the pickelhaube
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