- 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
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