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German gas mask box8/12/2023 marking and has different updated eyepieces, this later variant uses the same shape of facepiece as the GM17. stamps and GM15-styled eyepieces and one with the impressed metal stamp K.u.K. The harness is 6 pointed and not adjustable, but the straps are rubberized. This causes that the user has to blow out the air hard. The valve is in a metal house, the intake is the exhale valve too. Due to lack of Tissot-tube system and antifog inserts, the cheeks were designed bigger so the user could wipe off the fog with them but these "wiping wrinkles" are much smaller than on the GM15. The celluloid eyepieces are in metal assemblies. The facepiece is made of rubber-coated pale grey colored canvas. The M.17 or 17M, depending on the language is the direct Austro-Hungarian copy of the GM15, but the same designation can be used for the imported GM15 masks as well. It was called as Stoffmaske (cloth mask), Gummimaske (Rubber mask) or Rahmenmaske (Frame mask). Most of these masks were used in action during the gas attacks on the Italian front at the battlefields of Isonzo and Doberdo. stamps on the left side of the facepiece and on the valve and the size number are under the manufacturing date. ![]() used GM15 masks differed from the GM15 were the K. K., in Hungarian: Császári és Kiályi Hadsereg) to complete the protection of the soldiers beside of the rebreathers and M.15/15M masks. Juni 1916) by the Austro-Hungarian empire the masks were bought from Germany and were issued to the army (in Austrian: Kaiserlich und Königlich Landwehr, shortened version: K. Prior to the Monte San Michele gas attack (29. Kaiserlich und Königlich Armee (Austro-Hungarian Royal Army) The US Navy Gas Mask, Mark I (Mouth Canister Type) mask is the direct copy of the mask. A final, and very realistic, training exercise of British troops firing from trenches wearing the small box respirator.The first masks were made from the coverage of a downed French airship called Alsace. Various Royal Engineer sergeants demonstrate how to put on, as fast as possible, the P or PH gashood, the same with goggles rather than eyepieces, a version of the large box respirator with separate goggles, the German 1916 pattern respirator, and the French M2 gashood. Thick (and presumably fake) gas swirling in front of the camera being cleared by a soldier, just visible, with an Ayrton Fan. A platoon on the march receives a gas alert and dons its small box respirators at speed, checked by its officer before continuing the march. The remainder of the film shows British gas mask tests. A rare version of the British hypo gashood with a single mica window rather than eyepieces, 1915. The British P or PH gashood with its respirator valve in place. The British large box respirator of 1916 in three versions, the second with goggles rather than eyepieces and the third opened to show the mask interior, followed by two views of the carrying satchel, showing its clip for fitting to the belt. The French 'appareil respiratoire spécial' or ARS respirator of 1916, followed by its carrying case. ![]() Three views of the US 1917 pattern small box respirator, including an example of the sectioned mouthpiece, followed by its carrying satchel with the record card open and another shot of the satchel. Another view of the small box respirator, showing the detector guard and noseclip, followed by its carrying satchel. The British 1917 pattern small box respirator, followed by its carrying satchel. A carrying canister for the German 1916 gas mask. An experimental mask combining British eyepieces with the German filter system. A British black veiling face-mask of 1915 showing the chemically treated pad, followed by its carrying pouch. Probably protective padding for a British small box respirator canister of 1916. A German spare filter satchel, capable of carrying three filters, with one in place. A spare filter for the German 1916 pattern gas mask showing its contents. Probably a British container of detector strips for the presence of gas. British mica anti-gas goggles of mid-1915. A German gas mask with a leather facepiece, 1916, followed by its carrying canister. A carrying satchel for the French respirator pad of 1915. ![]() An early French gashood of 1915 for the eyes and upper head only. A Russian gas mask container of 1915 or 1916. The German respirator gauze pad of 1915, showing the contents of the pad. The German carrying case for their 1915 gashood with its Red Cross markings. Firstly the British P or PH gashood of 1915 without its respirator valve in place. The first sequence consists of static or stop-action scenes of a number of gas masks or gashoods displayed one at a time against a white background. British stop-action and demonstration film of various gas masks and hoods used by both sides in the First World War, compiled about 1917.
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