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This British made steel helmet was distributed to Canadian troops in 1916 to provide protection from shrapnel and shell fragments. Many soldiers did not want to adopt the steel helmet, finding it too heavy. The Surgeon General of the Second Army felt otherwise, stating in his March 7, 1916, report: “I find that 960 wounded were admitted to No. 10 Casualty Clearing Station in the 24 hours commencing at noon March 2nd [1916]. Of these, only four men were shot in the brain and three others had only slight fractures of the skull without injury to the brain. This is very greatly below the general average of nearly 3% of fractured skulls in any given number of wounded, for at this latter rate the number of fractured skulls in the 960 should have been about 30 instead of 7.” – Sgd. R. Porter, Surgeon General, Director of Medical Services, Second Army, March 7, 1916.