

7.7 Repair of Light Respirator Haversacks.7.3 Replacement/Repair of Valve Holders.7 Repair Producedure for Light Respirators.III & IIIA Light Respirators in the 1950s 4.14 Upgrades & the Continuation of Service of Mks.4.13 Issue of Light Respirators for the remainder of the 1940s.4.12 Introduction of the Thin-Type Improved Models (Mks.
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4.11 Full Adoption of the Light Anti-Gas Respirator as the new General Service Respirator.4.10 Introduction of Phase 3 Light Respirators (Mks.4.9 Design & Trials of the Porton-Type Valve Holder.4.2 Deisgn, Production & Trials of the Special Light Respirator.3.1.6 Example contents of an upgraded speech transmitter model for 1950s standard service issue, kit as follows:.3.1.5 Example contents of a late-production, comms-user-issue, RN issue (1944-45), kit as follows:.3.1.4 Example contents of a late-production (1944-45) standard service kit as follows:.3.1.3 Example contents of an 21st Army Group, Royal Singals & Regimental Signallers issue (1943 - 45) kit as follows:.3.1.2 Example contents of a standard service (1943 - 45) kit as follows:.3.1.1 Example contents of an early service (1942) kit as follows:.2.3 Holder, Valve, Assembly & Valve, Outlet.2.2.2 Special Synthetic "Stiff-Type" Rubber:.1.1 Photographic Examples of Each Light Respirator Facepiece.1 Design, Identification & Nomenclature.

Take note of this before copying any images or reusing any written content on this article. Note that any sources used by Baroque4Days will be listed in the References & Further Reading section. This information was unknown until research/documentation began by B4D. ĭisclaimer: If you use this information, please credit the user/collector Baroque4Days. Following the war, many of the Light Anti-Gas Respirators which were not issued during the war began service with both the Danish Armed Forces, and later the Danish Civil Defence Force, following the war, in the form of the M/45E.Īll-in-all, the Light Anti-Gas Respirator, beginning its journey in 1941, made successfully from the equivalent of a box of scraps, and serving Britain seemingly up to the 1990s, was an adaptable design that saw massive use.ĭisclaimer: It has been discovered in a Porton Down report on Asbestos use in wartime respirator containers that the Light Respirator "Light Container" DID NOT contain asbestos. IIA became the base of the Australian Light Anti-Gas Respirator. During the war, Canada began to produce their own Canadian Light Anti-Gas Respirators and the Mk. IIA, these two serving as the first standard-issue Lightweight Assault Respirator in the British Army and World, issued en masse over 1943. After some months in limited service, the designs were improved to the Mk. I was established as the first model at the end of 1941, later improved upon in a Mk. The Light Respirator, officially named the " Respirator, Anti-Gas, Light", was the respirator, originally designed due to a 1941 request, that ended up being the foundation of British Respirators to come, serving with Britain to some extent all the way until the 1990s.
