![]() The wearing of this hood or any type of gas mask is not advised for those suffering from Asthma or any other respiratory ailment. The original gas hood is not for sale only repro ones. No sales to Italy as the post there is too un-reliable, sorry. I will send out the hood via 1st class mail once I have received payment into my Paypal account. If you are after a cheaper version, see my other listings as I may have some available. Replica ones often appe ar on Ebay for about £20. This listing is for just a PH Gas Hood for £39.99. ![]() They were essentially nothing more than a canvas mask containing a rag soaked in urine. how awful and primitive it seems The first gas masks issued to US Soldiers in WWI were the French Duck Bill masks. I send them in a box for protection in the post. 1 war hawk New Member liverpool annie said: How about this for a Gas Mask. It doesn't come in any bag/ pouch or with any other equipment. This is a fantastic way of getting a replica WW1 British PH Gas Hood. Breath in through your nose and breath out via the flapper valve. Just put it on and tuck the excess material into the top of your uniform. This PH Gas Hood will offer the wearer no protection at all so is unsuitable for use against gas, smoke, dust or anything similar! Just like any other gas masks, it steams up inside when worn so gives you a genuine feeling of what a real one was like to wear. Many of the deaths occurred when panicked victims rushed. Please bear this in mind when buying this one.The hood has not been soaked in any anti-gas chemicals so is safe to wear. None of the British soldiers at Ypres had gas masks, resulting in 7,000 injuries and more than 1,100 deaths from chlorine gas asphyxiation. There are other PH hoods available with metal eye pieces but they are much more expensive. It is almost identical in appearance to the original gas hoods. It has 2 eye pieces (made from plastic and made to look metalic) and a black valve flapper with metal clip and a plastic fitting. ![]() Inside the hood is an ivory coloured cotton liner like the real ones - so 4 layers of fabric in total. The PH Gas Hood is made from a light blue / grey coloured cotton fabric. The same style of hood s are on display in the 'Passendaele Museum' and 'In Flanders Mu seum' in Belgium. See the 3rd photo of the reproduction hood on the left compared to the rather faded real hood on the right. It would be suitable for museum displays,battle re-enactments, murder mystery events, stage work (eg Oh what a lovelly war/ All quiet on the Western Front), fancy dress or just to look sinister! It is replicated from what I believe to be an actual WW1 PH gas hood so is the same size, shape etc. Widespread horror and public revulsion at the use of gas and its consequences led to far less use of chemical weapons by combatants during World War II.This listing is for a modern fullsize/ shape reproduction British style PH Gas Hood (similar to ones worn at the Battle of Loos in 1915). The use of poison gas by all major belligerents throughout World War I constituted war crimes as its use violated the 1899 Hague Declaration Concerning Asphyxiating Gases and the 1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare, which prohibited the use of "poison or poisoned weapons" in warfare. Ī French gas attack on German trenches in Flanders, Belgium (1917). ![]() The widespread use of these agents of chemical warfare, and wartime advances in the composition of high explosives, gave rise to an occasionally expressed view of World War I as "the chemist's war" and also the era where weapons of mass destruction were created. In the later stages of the war, as the use of gas increased, its overall effectiveness diminished. Gas was unlike most other weapons of the period because it was possible to develop countermeasures, such as gas masks. The killing capacity of gas was limited, with about 90,000 fatalities from a total of 1.3 million casualties caused by gas attacks. This chemical warfare was a major component of the first global war and first total war of the 20th century. The types of weapons employed ranged from disabling chemicals, such as tear gas, to lethal agents like phosgene, chlorine, and mustard gas. They were primarily used to demoralize, injure, and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally very slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds would be most effective. The use of toxic chemicals as weapons dates back thousands of years, but the first large-scale use of chemical weapons was during World War I.
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