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>At the beginning of the first World War, the uniform of the British soldiers included a brown cloth cap. They were not provided with metal helmets. As the war went on, the army authorities and the War Office became alarmed at the high proportion of men suffering head injuries. They therefore decided to replace the cloth headgear with metal helmets. From then on, all soldiers wore the metal helmets. However, the War Office was amazed to discover that the incidence of head injuries then increased. It can be assumed that the intensity of fighting was the same before and after this change. So it can then be concluded that number of head injuries per battalion increase when men wore metal helmets rather than cloth caps.
