German M16 steel helmet belonging to a soldier of the Marine Infantry Brigade solid relic condition well cleaned,green paintwork remains recovered in 2016 from ,Regina Trench near the village of Courcelette on the Somme battlefield of October 1916

This is a German soldiers M16 helmet which is in very relic condition but is still a nice example and rare find from the battlefield 100 years after it was lost. The helmet is very rusty but still in solid condition with somw rust holes the rare bit is there is some original green paintwork that can be seen perfectly on the inside it has been very well cleaned and is not braking up or falling apart it has no leather liner, the helmet which is perfect for display or any collection and a rare one for the collection as these are getting very hard helmets to find now from the battlefield. The helmet which would have been used by German soldier of the Marine Infantry Brigade it was recovered in 2016 from Regina trench defensive position near the village of Courcelette the October 1916 battlefield on the Somme. This is a nice condition relic with well known history recovered 8 years ago on the famous Somme battlefield of late summer 1916.The helmet comes with a A5 laminated information card with pictures. 

Regina Trench (Staufen Riegel) was a German Trench dug along the north-facing slope of a ridge running from north-west of the village of Le Sars south-westwards to Stuff Redoubt (Staufenfeste), close to the German fortifications at Thiepval on the Somme battlefield. It was the longest such trench on the German front during the First world war. Attacked several times by the Canadian Corps during the Battle of the Ancre Heights, the 5th Canadian corps briefly controlled a section of the trench on 1 October but was repulsed by counter-attacks of the German Marine Brigade (equivalent to an army division), which had been brought from the Belgian coast. An attack on 8 October, by the 1st Canadian Division and the 3rd Canadian Division on Regina Trench also failed.On 21 October, the 4th Canadian Division attacked the western portion of Regina Trench, as the 18th Division, 25th Division and the 39th Division of II Corps, attacked the part further west (known as Stuff Trench to the British). The Canadians met little opposition and gained the objective, as the II Corps divisions captured Stuff Trench in thirty minutes, giving the British control of the Thiepval Ridge. Three counter-attacks were repulsed by the Canadians and by 22 October, more than a thousand Germans had been taken prisoner. The east end of the trench was captured by the 4th Canadian Division during the night of 10/11 November.

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