Vesicles (cysts or blisters) on Major F S (Freddie) Gorrill's neck caused by a small area of skin ...

Place Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Forbes
Accession Number 029351
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Monro, Ronald Keith
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Forbes
Date made February 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Vesicles (cysts or blisters) on Major F S (Freddie) Gorrill's neck caused by a small area of skin being inadvertently left unprotected during an experimental shoot of gas shells carried out by the 2/2nd Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, and 2/1st Australian Chemical Warfare laboratory.