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Description: | A black rubber face mask (.1) inset with two glass eye pieces with metal frames. There is a bulge beneath the left eyepiece which could be removed to enable a telephone transmitter to be inserted. The mask has black elastic straps that attache through metal buckles to a rubber piece on the back of the head. There is a khaki coloured canvas tube that attaches the metal nosepiece to a red ridged canister. The mask is printed with the text: 'Lot 209D 10/41' and the canister is marked 'No. 4a'. The mask is contained within a carrying bag of khaki canvas (.2), which has a shoulder strap, one pocket with a flap, metal poppers and two metal D rings on the side. It is printed inside the flap 'SPC'
An adult gas mask that belonged to a Special Constable during the war. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | Civil defence Second World War (1939-1945) | Temporal: | 1939 - 1945 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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