JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
There are a half-dozen posts on this blog showing what soldiers wore and carried with them into battle, mostly in WWI and WWII. This addition to that series is more along the lines of what they didn’t carry, though someone at some point was thinking about this sort of protective gear for the fighting French. The only thing that really made it out alive from this drawing was the helmet, and the puttes.
[Source: Scientific American Supplement #2166, July 7, 1917.]