After training at Camp Bowie, Cox was deployed to Europe where he was one of 70,552 Americans exposed to gas during the war. RARE FRENCH WW1 ALUMINIUM GAS MASK WWI EUROPE FRENCH ARS AUSTRALIAN FRONT. 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. French Photo WW1 Old Soldier with Gas Mask M2. entered the war, gas masks such as this one had been developed with chemical absorbents that limited the impact of chloride gas. The M2 was made in large quantities, with about 29,300,000 being made during the war. 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. French M2 gas mask and pouch This was used by French, British and American forces from 1916 until the end of the war. WWI French M2 Gas Mask & Carry Bag The French M2 Gas mask was a French made gas mask used by French, British and American forces from April 1916 to August 1918 during. 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. 1915 ZelinskyKummant protivogaz, designed in 1915, was one of the first modern-type full-head protection gas masks with a detachable filter and eyelet glasses, shown here worn by U.S.
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