Full dress helmet : Field Marshal Lord Birdwood, Household Cavalry

German silver full dress helmet with silver, gilt and enamel plate, gilt tudor rose bosses and decoration down back, gilt star and ball on top surmounted by a hollow German silver spike to take plume. Lower edge of helmet is bound in gilt. Gilt chin scales are backed with black leather. Brown leather liner to body of helmet. Helmet has a large gilt, silver and enamel badge of the British Royal Horse Guards. Central eight-pointed silver star has central red enamelled cross, edged with silver. Motto 'HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE' is in gilt letters on a blue enamel garter surrounding the cross. The silver star is wreathed with gilt tudor roses and bows, and an outer wreath of oak leaves and acorns, and laurel leaves. At the base of the leaves is a gilt St George and the dragon. The top of the star is surmounted by a gilt king's crown.

Field Marshal Lord Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes. Helmet worn in his position of 'Gold Stick, Colonel of the Blues, Household Cavalry.