A French cuirassier on sentry duty at the start of WWI in 1914. Soon after the use of both helmet and breast plate was abolished

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A French cuirassier on sentry duty at the start of WWI in 1914. Soon after the use of both helmet and breast plate was abolished. From The Pageant of the Century, published 1934

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