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| Picture No | 10215230 |
| Date | 1915 |
| Description | British gas mask 1915 |
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A British soldier wearing a respirator or gas-mask with an air-valve on the top. The Germans first used poisonous gas at Ypres on April 22nd 1915, defying the Hague Convention treaty of 1907 which they had signed.
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| Source | Photograph in 'The Illustrated London News', 3 April 1915, page 444 and also in 'The Illustrated London News', 1 May 1915, page 553 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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