Nice 'photo of an Irish Army Captain (epaulettes) of Infantry (collar insignia), wearing M27 "Officer pattern" helmet, from the "Emergency" period.  Best regards, JR.

Defender of Neutrality in a Free State.

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.

Irish Army M27 helmet.

A former Italian-built bomber Savoia-Marchetti S.79s (aircraft B.1-122, construction number 88) converted by AISA in fast transport aircraft for Spanish Air Force with four seat’s row and delivered on April 1944 to Grupo de Estado Mayor del Aire for VIP services. Victor Sierra