Above, a tank crew member (to the right) is seen wearing a leather helmet in France in 1916 The helmet (above) was donated to a charity shop and sold at auction yesterday, in Kent, for £4,800 ...

THE steel Second World War helmet (Telegraph, August 7) was the type that was used by the testers putting the tanks through endurance tests on the clog banks in Deedmore Road, Wood End.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Two British tank crew have been killed when they were fired on by comrades in another British tank in Iraq. The four-man crew of a ...