If the shrapnel don’t get you, then the mustard gas will 🎶
fordroader
Depends on how he coped with it afterwards as to whether he thought himself lucky or not…
ReenusSSlakter
That helmet probably turned a dead man into a walking casualty.
RhodyWanKenobi
He died shortly after taking this photo…. bandage was hi vis
oi_you_nutter
After steel helmets were introduced the number of casualties with head injuries went up. Not because soldiers were taking more risks but because more were not being killed by head injuries.
ZeroCoolBeans
If the shrapnel don’t get you, then the mustard gas will 🎶
fordroader
Depends on how he coped with it afterwards as to whether he thought himself lucky or not…
ReenusSSlakter
That helmet probably turned a dead man into a walking casualty.
RhodyWanKenobi
He died shortly after taking this photo…. bandage was hi vis
oi_you_nutter
After steel helmets were introduced the number of casualties with head injuries went up. Not because soldiers were taking more risks but because more were not being killed by head injuries.
SauerkrautandBeans
I just had a flashback to 1998’s Saving Private Ryan
Retireegeorge
Sniper?
BlackSwede
what luck?! it went through, did it not? He is a zombie.