'Gunners, suspicious of an approaching Taube, don masks as protection against German gas shells', 1915 (c)

Photograph, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1915 (c).

The gunners belong to 8th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, which was stationed at Bangalore in India when war broke out as part of the 9th Indian Division. The battery was then attached to the 7th Meerut Division and arrived in France in September 1914.

From a collection of 101 stereoscopic photographs in box one of two entitled 'The Great War'.