anti-shrapnel

Updated: June 3, 2025

All up the hillside to our right the foundations of houses lay out, like a bit of tripe, with the sunshine in their square hollows. Suddenly a band began to play up the hill among some trees; and an officer of local Guards in the new steel anti-shrapnel helmet, which is like the seventeenth century sallet, suggested that we should climb and get a better view.

Rudyard Kipling - France at War: On the Frontier of Civilization