The greek people celebrating the victory of the greek army against the italian army in 1940.The sing says (<<Και στη Ρώμη>>) <<On the way to Rome>>.

After the first victory

The stokers of the famous greek warship Averof.Georgios Averof  is a Greek warship which served as the flagship of the Royal Hellenic Navy during most of the first half of the 20th Century. Although popularly known as a battleship , it is in fact an armored cruiser, and the only such ship still in existence.After Germany's attack against Greece in 1941 and the collapse of the front, the ship's crew disobeyed the orders to scuttle the ship to avoid capture by the Germans, and sailed to Souda Bay, Crete, under the constant threat of German air strikes.In 1984, the Navy decided to restore her as a museum, and in the same year she was towed to Faliron Bay, where she is anchored to this day and functioning as a floating museum, seeking to promote the historical consolidation and upkeep of the Greek naval tradition.

The stokers of Averof

Very nice example recently offered for sale, one of a batch of three, I understand.  This definitely seems to be a helmet used by the Civil Defence after Army use; while it has been stripped reasonably well, traces of the white Civil Defence paint-job are visible.  The Irish Army badge at the centre-front of the helmet is, I understand, a reproduction.  Again, it would often (though not always) have been the case that these badges would have been removed when a helmet was issued to the Civil Defence; there are cases in which they were simply painted over.  Best regards, JR.