Image:Small box respirator.jpg

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An Australian chaplain wearing the "Large Box Respirator" also known as the "Respiratory Tower" during the First World War.
Additional information : The man is probably Major Walter Dexter, DSO, DCM, in the Bois Grenier Sector on 5th June 1916. (source of information : Simon Jones, World War I Gas Warfare Tactics and Equipment, Osprey Publishing, 2007).

See also gas mask

Photo Source : Imperial War Museum catalogue number Q 670.

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