The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Informal portrait of probably Padre Walter Ernest Dexter modelling a large box respirator, predecessor of the commonly used small box respirator. The wraparound cloth mask featured a carbon filter (in a unit in the bag attached to the soldier's uniform) that removed impurities from the air.
Australian infantry in England undergoing training in the use of the small box respirator before proceeding to France. The small box respirator was one of the most effective general purpose gas masks
Lieutenant Fletcher and 2800 Sergeant William George Hoole, wearing small box respirators while instructing troops in their use at a camp in England. The small box respirator was one of the most effe
Studio portrait of a sister from the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) wearing her gas mask respirator and bag. This image is from the collection of 4403 Staff Sergeant Ernest George Hewish, 3rd Austral
Australian Army Respirator, Anti-Gas, Light. Gas mask respirator with lefthand side-mounted, green painted metal filter canister. Two-tone black and brown rubber face mask has two circular eye pieces
Covering box for 7700 Series half mask air purifying respirator, large size. The respirator has an organic vapor acid gas cartridge and P100 filter attached, and is in its original cardboard box with
British pattern gas mask respirator bag. On the inside of the flap are stamped in black ink some manufacturers markings featuring illegible numbers and digits and a government broad arrow. A central r
