Photo #15



The German and Allied armies saturated the front with poison gas during the 1918 battles. While respirators like this one were effective in filtering out the gas, wearing them left soldiers fatigued and frightened within the deadly swirling clouds.

Gas respirator, small box type
Canadian War Museum
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