31 JULY 1915, Page 13

ARMOUR IN MODERN ARMIES.

[To THE EDITOR OF TSR "Sescraroo."3 Sin,—The issue of armour to troops in war is much more modern than many people suppose. Steel or iron helmets were sent out to the Crimea for the French soldiers in the trenches before Sebastopol. There is a reference—rather a sneering one—to this in Kinglake's History.—I am, Sir, &c.,

A READER.