Helmet, tropical, colonial pattern, troopers’, Royal East Kent (Duke of Connaught’s Own) (Mounted Rifles) Imperial Yeomanry, worn by Trp J H Evelyn, 1900.

Cork covered in khaki cotton drill, 1900

Worn at the battle of Lindley, where the wearer was captured. He was sent from Nooitgedacht to Barberton as a special prisoner. He was one of eighty wealthy and influential British prisoners freed on the arrival of the French on 13/09/1900, and this helmet was issued to him on his release. He was discharged at his own request at Mackenzies Farm.