Canadian Military Educational Centre

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by servicepub

Alex, my comment about "off-point" was aimed at the language used by
CADA, i.e., "dirty and unsafe" and not at you for posting here. Good idea though to have the mods carve this out into its own topic as I can see this going on for a while.
Clive

Jeez Clive..
You should of known me BEFORE I cleaned up my act..
WE better get together at Gracies..as soon as Young Law is around..
Can't remember if we initiated him or not..
But I feel a ragin' thirst coming on...

[Eric B]

Back to gas masks.

My Grandfather was a lead driver with the Royal Canadian Artillery in WW1 and they use to fill a feed bag with hay for the horses to serve as a gas mask.

He was unable to ride with the hood gas mask so they use to take the mouthpiece out and stick that in their mouth and ride through the gas. He said that their mouth would be black from the charcoal afterwards.

If you wish this info for the book Clive let me know. I also have some test radio attachments for the newer style gas mask. I actually had a black version of the newer gas mask, but as it was slashed i traded it for a green one. Now the black ones are extremely hard to find if not impossible.

Thanks
Eric

[Eric B]

OH I also forgot i have lots of NBC equipment as well. The Dieffenbunker also has items of interest.

There is a good book on the Canadian Manufacture of of Chemical and Biological warfare in WW2. I beleive it is called Canada Secret War. It was a very good read and eye opening.

Gross Illes in QC as well as Suffield were a result of this experimentation. Which Canada was the lead in.

We were able to come up eventually with the antidote to the German Gas.

Thank goodness they did not have it as they could have wiped out the allies numerous times prior to us finding the antidote. Even then we did not make enough of it to get to the field.

Eric

[Dennis Gelean (RIP)]

Text from the excellent book "Corvette Navy" the haunting story of men plucked in good health and spirit from a sinking ship by the escort Minas, in a matter of minutes they lay dead. Their Merchant ship had been carrying containers of poison gas for storage in the UK for retaliatory use in the event of a Nazi gas attack The torpedoing had released some of this fearful gas,
they were all doomed. add this to the Bari Italy incident and we can conclude
that both sides knew there was enough stockpiles of gas to kill everyone.

part of a chemical officer job was to check captured filters for changes, British civilian filters kept being added to, till they would not fit custom made carriers.

The USN did gas drills on their ships.