Greenslade Taylor Hunt
Lot 651
A POST-1902 WELSH REGIMENT OFFICER'S HOME SERVICE BLUE CLOTH HELMET with a gilt metal King's crown helmet plate to the front, a removable spike to the top on a shaped cruciform base with rosette fittings, rosette side bosses, brass trim to the front peak, and leather and velvet backed chin scales, complete with leather sweat band, the interior gilt blocked 'F.W. Flight / Military Outfitter / 90, High St. / Winchester', in original painted tin hat box, with an applied plaque to the sloping front 'F.W. Flight / Military Tailor / Winchester' and hand painted below 'W.T. Wootton / Welch Regt.'. Note: Second-Lieutenant William Thomas Wootton was commissioned into the Special Reserve of The Welsh Regiment on 7th January 1914. He was attached to the 2nd Battalion and embarked for France on 12th August 1914. On 21st September 1914 he was with the Battalion in the vicinity of Beaulne, during the retreat from Mons, when he suffered an eye injury and was returned to Base. He rejoined the Battalion on 26th December 1914, at which time it was in the line at Festubert. The October 1918 Army List shows him as a Captain but he is not shown in the 1920 List, suggesting he was demobilised in 1919 and resigned from his Special Reserve Commission.
