Respirator No 4 Mk 2, pattern 1944 (reissued 1955), owned by Captain David A Walmsley, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1955-1959

Manufactured November 1952 at the Royal Laboratories, with respirator cartridge, Mk 3.

Given the possibility of a modern battlefield where nuclear, biological and chemical attacks were probable, World War Two era respirators with eye shields and anti-gas ointment were reissued to National Servicemen, especially those serving in Germany.