Ww1 gas mask nurse9/1/2023 ![]() The experience of ordinary men of their medical treatment and trench warfare gathered from some letters written by those who had worked for Great Western Railway before the war.The attack on Hill 60, south west of Ypres, April 1915. ![]() Daily life on the front: from mud to hair cuts.Weapons, experience of being under fire, defensive mining, gas masks.The trench system and its organisation and topography.Treatments for ‘shell shock’, neurasthenia and gas attacks, government reports on ‘shell shock’ and ‘mustard gas’.The following themes covered by the documents in Part 2 include: We hope that exposure to original source material may also foster further document research. The tasks can be completed individually or in groups.There is a downloadable pdf of questions (0.02 MB) to help working with sources.All documents are provided with transcripts. With each collection we have suggested 5 tasks based on some of the documents. Each collection includes a wide range of sources to encourage students to think broadly when exploring these topics. Teachers have the flexibility to download and create their own resources from these documents, to develop their pupils’ understanding of how to work with sources and prepare and practice for source based exam questions. (7.2 MB)īoth these collections of original sources Part 1 and Part 2 can be used to support GCSE thematic modules which cover ‘Medicine through Time to the present day’ and the ‘historical context of the British sector of the Western Front’. These teachers notes can be downloaded as part of our Teachers Pack PDF. Oh, they were a nuisance, but that was the first gas mask that came in.Download documents and transcripts Teachers' notes And you had two goggles here on to look out, two glasses to look out and with your breath it didn't take long before the glasses were steamed up and you couldn't see where you were going. Well then they got this, the improved type. The chemical was pretty near as bad as the gas. It was something like flannelette, wool serge would probably better describe it. You respired through this heavily, heavy material. You inhaled through your nose and respired through your mouth. The old one we had first, you pulled it over your head like a balaclava. I remember the old one, the one that this was a respirator, you know, one that you clamped on your head with an elastic. I remember one night, some of our fellas put them on when we come to a dead horse, that was the only reason. I don't remember ever putting my gas mask on. If you hadn't used it then you wouldn't mark anything on this. Every time you used your respirator you were supposed to mark how long you had it on, if you used it. The gas officer would always, when you had your staff parade in the morning, he would test your, he would look at your respirators and you had to have that ticket, the little ticket. ![]() MacLeod gives a good comparison between the original respirator and newer gas masks used by Canadian soldiers. However, the masks could not protect them against mustard gas used later in the war, which burned the skin, caused severe breathing problems, and could cause blindness. Allied troops were given gas masks to protect against chlorine gas attacks. ![]()
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