Original British WWII Homefront Baby Infant Gas Mask - Dated 1939 French Ordnance possibly in the late 1940s

possibly in the late 1940s or 1950s

together with a silver crescent moon and star

On the eve of the war

considered the First Reich

large air bladder

Original British WWII Homefront Baby Infant Gas Mask - Dated 1939 French Ordnance possibly in the late 1940sOriginal Item: Only One Available. This looks like a deep sea diving helmet but is in fact a gas mask for babies, dating from World War II. In 1938, the British Government gave everyone, including babies, gas masks to protect them in case the Germans dropped poison gas bombs on Britain. This gas mask was for children up to two years old. The parents placed their baby inside the mask so that the head was inside the steel helmet and the baby could see