Machine gunners in action wearing their gas helmets
To those who opposed the war, images of soldiers in these crude gas-masks were a symbol of the dehumanizing effect of battle. In any case, it must have been difficult to operate any equipment, least of all a machine-gun, while wearing them.
T.P. Bennet photographer, glass lantern slide, c 1915-1918
Accession number: H83.103/41
From the State Library of Victoria's Pictures Collection.
