Tag Archives: hawkes

No plaintiff, but a judge: The Formal Dress Wolseley Helmet of Sir Norman George Armstrong Edgley, KC.

Sir Norman George Armstrong Edgley, KC. (Author’s collection)

Sir Norman George Armstrong Edgley, KC. (Author’s collection)

According to the former owner, this part of Sir Norman´s legacy – consisting of his Wolseley helmet, album of photographs, Royal Warrant, some more papers and his fly whisk –  came from a private house auction and was brought there for fancy dress purposes. A nice idea – and a nice imagination as well, to go to a fancy dress party just covered with Sir Norman´s helmet and swinging his fly whisk. If one gets arrested dressed like this – there is still the Royal Warrant, signed by George VI., to have at least some kind of legitimation. But were to put it without a pocket? Maybe folded in the liner of the helmet, the same place where Lord Kitchener, according to his biographer Philip Magnus, carried dispatch leaflets with him. Continue reading