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Small box respirator.jpg

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An Australian chaplain wearing the "Large Box Respirator" also known as the "Respiratory Tower" during the First World War.


Additional information : The man is probably Major Walter Dexter, DSO, DCM, in the Bois Grenier Sector on 5th June 1916. (source of information : Simon Jones, World War I Gas Warfare Tactics and Equipment, Osprey Publishing, 2007).
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Image of the exterior main entrance to the Imperial War Museum in London. This photograph Q 670 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Flag of the United Kingdom.
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Ernest Brooks (1878–1957)  wikidata:Q5392825
 
Ernest Brooks
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E. "Baby" Brooks
Description British photographer
Date of birth/death 23 February 1878 Edit this at Wikidata 1957 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Faringdon Edit this at Wikidata Hendon Edit this at Wikidata
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