Gas masks at the Imperial War Museum
Thursday 26th October 1916 From our Correspondent in the Field
The adjutant
of the 1st Bedfords tells me that they have been issued with a new design of
box respirator to prevent the effects of poisoned gas. Every officer and man in
the battalion, duly wearing the new respirators, underwent a session in the
“gas house” at Essars. This involved going through a chamber filled with gas.
He was glad to report on the effectiveness of the respirators, not a man
suffering any ill effects.
He also
mentioned something about practising for a forthcoming raid. The war goes on
away from this place. It is sometimes difficult to remember that men are
fighting and dying in places other than this fifty square miles or so of soggy
misery north of the River Somme.
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