Old Bill, on the home front by Bruce Bairnsfather 1939

"Well, I've poured it out for yer, but the Warden says yer mustn't take yer-mask off for another hour yet." In September 1939 nearly everybody in the country had been issued with a gas masks, which they were asked to carry everywhere they went, in protection against attack

Bairnsfather Bairnsfathers Bert Chemical Gas-mask Homefront Introduced Issued Masks Rules

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