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Five British
soldiers on the right are in 1914 uniforms, more suited for parades and field
exercises in peacetime than in a full-scale war. Uniforms changed as the
battles in Europe developed into four years of trench warfare.
The soldier
on the lower left, though, is from another army, as shown by his uniform. He
wears the U.S. M1 helmet, which was issued from 1942-85. What marks the soldier
as being from the 1970s, he is wearing what was commonly called a “flak vest,”
capable of sometimes stopping had grenade and mortar fragments. The soldier
also appears to wear a jungle fatigue type shirt and a pistol belt.
The Battle
of Mons, Aug. 23, 1914, was the first between the British army and invading Imperial
Germany forces. With the presence of 1970s American soldiers, maybe the British
had more help than historians know.
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