Informal portrait of probably Padre Walter Ernest Dexter modelling a large box respirator, ...

Place Europe: France
Accession Number EZ0051
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Brooks, Ernest
Place made France: Nord Pas de Calais, Nord, Lille, Bois-Grenier, France: Nord Pas de Calais, Nord, Lille, Bois-Grenier
Date made 5 June 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

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.