![]() ![]() Babies were put inside the case and when all the covering flaps were folded and the straps closed up, the baby was totally enclosed. Children were issued with colored masks to make them feel less scary.īabies had special cradle-like respirators which would only be issued out if an emergency situation arose. New Made Item: Copied directly from an original in the IMA collection this is a stunning reproduction of the standard First World War German Gas Mask. They were carried normally in a cardboard box or in some cases a tin box and had to be taken wherever you went. I witnessed from the air the first gas attack when the Germans. Archibald James, an observer in the Royal Flying Corps, saw it being used for the first time. Their attack featured a weapon that had not been used before on the Western Front poison gas. In 1938, the British Government gave everyone, including babies, gas masks to protect them in case the Germans dropped poison gas bombs on Britain. On 22 April 1915, German forces launched a renewed offensive against the Ypres Salient. Note the carrying handle on the respirator used to carry the baby by the nurse in the foreground”. The photo is part of the Imperial War Museum in London and the original caption reads: “Three nurses carry babies cocooned in baby gas respirators down the corridor of a London hospital during a gas drill. This gas mask was for children up to two years old and the design covered the whole of the baby except for its legs. The hospital is running a drill to make sure that they can implement the procedures for poison gas and in this case, the nurses are testing out infant gas masks. Gas masks for babies tested at an English hospital, 1940. ![]()
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