![]() ![]() Since then I have gathered all sorts of war time memorabilia relating to both the services and to the home front. I found out that this had been common practice with the gas mask's, to give them better protection than the issued cardboard box. ![]() One in particular, a civilian gas mask in a black painted tin which had been a powdered milk tin that was originally white with blue writing on, it had been issued by the ministry of food during World War 2 as part of rationing. I remember as a young boy gas masks and helmets in my grandparents house as many homes in that time still had. I started collecting when I was about 8 years of age, when I was given pieces from my paternal grandfather David McCallion. ![]()
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