First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Equipment - tell-tale bags?

Not all clues to the date of a photograph are as obvious as a particular model of tank! In some studio portraits you can see the strap of the small box respirator bag which carried the gasmark. These were introduced in the winter of 1916-1917. Also the men would be wearing these bags whilst serving overseas so the photo was most probably taken in Belgium or France, or one of the other theatres of the war.