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The main German gas mask of World War I featured a rubberized fabric mask with eye pieces and a separate cylindrical screw-fit filter. In all, more than 29 million M-2 gas masks were issued and used by French, American, Italian, and Belgian forces.
Gas masks used in World War One were made as a result of poison gas attacks that took the Allies in the trenches on the Western Front by surprise.
One of the best-known gas masks developed during WWI was the small box respirator. It consisted of a face mask made from rubberized fabric, which connected to a canister containing chemicals that absorbed the toxins before a soldier could breathe them in.
Two German soldiers and their mule wearing gas masks in World War One, 1916. Many animals were used during World War One. Horses, mules, dogs, and pigeons were vulnerable to poison gases so that special protection was necessary for them.
One of these scientists was John Scott Haldane, whose spectacular moustache (see above) would likely have prevented him from getting a good seal when wearing a gas mask.
Full-length image of soldiers wearing gas masks while standing in two rows in a field during a training exercise, World War I, 1914-1918.
German soldiers ignite chlorine gas canisters during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium on April 22, 1915. But early gases weren’t as terrifying as chemical weapons developed in the course of the war.
1914-1918: The first gas masks. Following the unexpected and lethal chemical attack by the German army on the northern end of the Ypres salient, tactics against gas warfare were quickly developed and implemented. These included practical gas masks and gas alarm equipment.
None of the British soldiers at Ypres had gas masks, resulting in 7,000 injuries and more than 1,100 deaths from chlorine gas asphyxiation.
But let's back up a bit, and explain how a St. John's doctor wound up playing a pivotal role overseas in developing a widely used gas mask. When Britain declared war on Germany on Aug. 4, 1914 ...