gas mask
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19760371-003
- Event 1914-1919 First World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer SC Ltd
- Date Made 1918/10/31
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Tools and equipment for science and technology
- Sub-category Regulative and protective tools and equipment
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1918/10/31
- Latest 1918/10/31
- Inscription SC Ltd; 105; 199; 18; 2; card: Name; Date Issue; 31 OCT 1918; Jewell W 3059668
- Materials Fibre unidentified, Metal, Rubber
- Service Component Canadian Expeditionary Force
- Measurements Length 50.0 cm, Width 25.0 cm, Depth 12.0 cm
- Caption Small Box Respirator
- Additional Information Small Box Respirator. Introduced at the end of 1916, the Small Box Respirator was the most effective British/Canadian respirator of the war. It was an awful and debilitating device to wear. Imagine an attack on the enemy while wearing this mask: leaving the trench, advancing through and around the barbed-wire that covered No Man's Land, and meeting the enemy in battle.