Mary Evans South African gas alarm post trench sentry 1917 10699211

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Picture No	10699211
Date	1917
Description	South African gas alarm post trench sentry 1917
Details	Soldier ready to ring the bell to give warning to a gas attack. In the Western Front they took gas attacks as "all in the days work", every soldier carried his gas mask on him; adequate medical antidotes are at hand; while, to ensure due warning being given of the letting off a gas-cloud, the greenish-yellow vapour is seen rising above the enemy's front trenches, alarm-bells are clanged which a sentry of the South African Contingent pulling the clapper to give warning.
Source	Photograph in 'The Illustrated War News', 21 February 1917, page 31
Credit	© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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