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Title:
Respirator No 4 Mk II, pattern 1944, 1945, reissued 1955
Object name(s):
respirator, No 4 Mk II, pattern 1944
Brief description:
Respirator No 4 Mk 2, pattern 1944 (reissued 1955), owned by Captain David A Walmsley, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1955-1959. Manufactured November 1952 at the Royal Laboratories, with respirator cartridge, Mk 3. Given the possibility of a modern battlefield where nuclear, biological and chemical attacks were probable, World War Two era respirators with eye shields and anti-gas ointment were reissued to National Servicemen, especially those serving in Germany.
Collection:
National Army Museum
Associated concept:
Equipment, general
Current location:
National Army Museum, Study Collection
Object name:
respirator, No 4 Mk II, pattern 1944
Object number:
NAM. 2000-05-135-1
Right type:
National Army Museum Copyright

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/14db7b66-e36b-34b9-b471-f73096921fb1

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/14db7b66-e36b-34b9-b471-f73096921fb1, National Army Museum, CC BY-NC

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