NAM.1981-07-22-1

Gas rattle, 1918 (c); wooden handle has a steel pin inserted into the top an may have been secured and stopped from rotating by a bolt pushed through the handle; upper and lower plates of the rattle are metal and hinged on to the spindle, either side of an eight points ratchet; all metal work is painted black and woodwork strained brown; owned by Lt J T Colledge, Royal Horse Guards, and probably used for warning of a gas attack, although such items were also used to simulate machine gun fire.

World War One (1914-1918)