P03332.021 Accession Number: P03332.021

Description

Informal group portrait of United Kingdom (UK) meteorologists from Porton Down Chemical Defence Board, now part of the Meteorology Section of the 1st Field Trials Company, standing in the barracks area of the Proserpine Chemical Warfare Station (CWS). Idenitfied, left to right: Stanley Crawford; Frank Pasquill (Head of the Section); Stanley Mason. The Proserpine CWS was set up to mainly test British chemical warfare weapons. It was abandoned at the end of the war.

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Accession Number
P03332.021
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Support: Paper (Fibre-based)
Date Made
1945
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor S Stoltz
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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