Box respirator owned by Captain A B Dale, 1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex, Duke of Cambridge’s Hussars), 1916
respirator, respirator
Accession Number
NAM.1969-06-29-1-1
Description
Respirator, small box type, owned by Capt A B Dale, 1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex, Duke of Cambridge’s Own), 1916 Khaki drab and rubberised cotton with two circular eyeholes, bound with metal and glazed with yellow tinted glass. Padded around the face and fastened at the back with five straps. Inside is a sprung and padded nose clip and one grey rubber mouthpiece. A canvas rubber tube leads from the mouthpiece to a metal ribbed filter pack, painted black, with a valve on the bottom of the pack.
Campaigns
World War One (1914-1918)