The veteran soldier relived the horrors of the infamous First World War gas attacks ... a German shell had pierced the metal container of his gas mask earlier in the day, allowing the poisonous ...

News - Outbreak of war with Germany 1938: Government issues gas mask instructions. Audio1938: Government issues gas mask instructions Contractor found for unexploded WW2 bombs survey WW2 soldier's ...

Spratlin, a World War I soldier killed in action on Oct. 5 ... Soldiers were in the open and exposed, subjected to enemy fire or mustard gas attacks as they crossed "No Man's Land." ...

invented the gas mask that Allied troops carried into battle to protect against chemical attacks in World War I. “By 1917, a year after the Lake Erie disaster, this type of hood was standard ...

Klein It’s a bitter paradox that even the most virulently antiwar of the famous soldier poets of World War I felt the lure ... about the effects of poison gas, “Muse of Fire” is richly ...

A Norfolk man couldn't believe his luck when he found a fully intact Second World War gas mask while looking for driftwood on a Norfolk beach. John Aldridge had been scouring the groynes at West ...

World War I changed ... considerable impact on the war’s outcome. Gas Masks – The Answer to a New Threat Though not a weapon in the traditional sense, the gas mask became essential as chemical ...

A Norfolk man couldn't believe his luck when he found a fully intact Second World War gas mask while looking for driftwood on a Norfolk beach. John Aldridge had been scouring the groynes at ...