![]() ![]() ![]() Cox apparently suffered no short term effects from the gassing - his June 16, 1919, honorable discharge reported him being "0 percent disabled. After training at Camp Bowie, Cox was deployed to Europe where he was one of 70,552 Americans exposed to gas during the war. The bag is in good condition but a little dirty and has a name and number on the back. AEF Gasmasks & Respirators 1917 to 1919 - (1917-1919) WORLD WAR ONE, RUSSIAN INTERVENTION - U.S. A good example of the rare WW1 British 'Small Box Respirator Gas Mask and bag First introduced in late 1916 to provide reliable protection against chlorine and phosgene gas, it replaced the less effective PH Gas Helmet to become a classic part of the silhouette of the allied soldier for the second half of WW1. The bag is stamped S-18-23 on the inside of the flap and has the number 3 on the outside for the size. This is an original item and sold for display and collectible use only. He served as a private in Company B, 7th Infantry before rising to a sergeant in Company H, 142nd Infantry, 36th Division, a consolidated unit of infantries from Oklahoma and Texas. Description Original American WW1 gas mask and bag. entered the war, gas masks such as this one had been developed with chemical absorbents that limited the impact of chloride gas. An eyewitness account described the impact as "a burning sensation in the head, red-hot needles in the lungs, the throat seized as by a strangler." By the time the U.S. The main German gas mask of World War I featured a rubberized fabric mask with eye pieces and a separate cylindrical screw-fit filter. This gas mask was worn by 21 year old Levi Nathan Cox from Clarendon, Texas.Ĭhemical warfare using chloride gas was first released by German troops on April 22, 1915, killing 1,100 Allied soldiers and injuring an unknown number of others. Gas masks were developed in WWI to protect soldiers from the effects of chloride gas. Here at D&B Militaria we have an extensive collection of WW1 & WW2 Gas Masks & Respirators, including British & German. ![]()
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