This is a nice glass-framed very rare fabric section from a Afrikakorps soldiers jacket, The fabric section still retains its original sand camouflage colour and is very solid and not braking up or falling apart. The part has been mounted in to a glass-fronted frame measuring 13 inches long by 13 inches wide making it perfect for display or a collection. The jacket remains was recovered from the El Alamein battlefield in North Africa in 1942, this is a section of that jacket which unfortunately when it was recovered a lot of the stitching and some of the jacket had disintegrated so the jacket was in many parts which themselves are nice and solid.
The jacket section was recovered from the El Alamein battlefield in the early 2000’s by Egyptian-Sahara.com, an expedition and battlefield-tour company that operated in Egypt during the late 2000s and early 2010s and specialised in expeditions to the El Alamein battlefield. Contemporary Egyptian-Sahara promotional material supplied with the helmet provides supporting provenance for its recovery and shows the company documenting and displaying battlefield relics from the area. The accompanying leaflet is retained as supporting documentary evidence of the company and its El Alamein battlefield activities.
El Alamein was the scene of the decisive Second Battle of El Alamein, fought from 23 October to 11 November 1942, when the British Eighth Army under General Bernard Montgomery launched a major offensive against German and Italian forces commanded by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. After fierce fighting across the desert, the Axis forces were forced to withdraw westwards. The victory halted the Axis advance towards Egypt and the Suez Canal and became a major turning point in the North African Campaign. The helmet therefore represents a tangible surviving artefact connected to the British and Commonwealth forces that fought in this strategically important desert theatre.
This is a nice glass-framed very rare fabric section from a Afrikakorps soldiers jacket, The fabric section still retains its original sand camouflage colour and is very solid and not braking up or falling apart. The part has been mounted in to a glass-fronted frame measuring 13 inches long by 13 inches wide making it perfect for display or a collection. The jacket remains was recovered from the El Alamein battlefield in North Africa in 1942, this is a section of that jacket which unfortunately when it was recovered a lot of the stitching and some of the jacket had disintegrated so the jacket was in many parts which themselves are nice and solid.
The jacket section was recovered from the El Alamein battlefield in the early 2000’s by Egyptian-Sahara.com, an expedition and battlefield-tour company that operated in Egypt during the late 2000s and early 2010s and specialised in expeditions to the El Alamein battlefield. Contemporary Egyptian-Sahara promotional material supplied with the helmet provides supporting provenance for its recovery and shows the company documenting and displaying battlefield relics from the area. The accompanying leaflet is retained as supporting documentary evidence of the company and its El Alamein battlefield activities.
El Alamein was the scene of the decisive Second Battle of El Alamein, fought from 23 October to 11 November 1942, when the British Eighth Army under General Bernard Montgomery launched a major offensive against German and Italian forces commanded by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. After fierce fighting across the desert, the Axis forces were forced to withdraw westwards. The victory halted the Axis advance towards Egypt and the Suez Canal and became a major turning point in the North African Campaign. The helmet therefore represents a tangible surviving artefact connected to the British and Commonwealth forces that fought in this strategically important desert theatre.
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