WWI - 1917, Gas Alarm Training Film

WWI - 1917, Gas Alarm Training Film British troops, in trench w/ wicker retainings, conduct an anti-gas drill. Warnings are sounded by strombos horns to troops in trenches. Soldiers put on gas mask (back to camera); at side w/ rifles & fog of gas clouds across. View from trench thru barbed wire, light snow on ground, clouds of gas seen blowing. 09:03:06 MS Sentry in trench puts on mask, walks away; men hurry out of dugout, gas blows across. Sentry & others in trench. Men in gas masks cleaning rifles. Man runs in & felled by gas, another helps him w/ respirator, he has seizure; medics arrive & take him to gas proof bunker. Lewis gun & men put on masks, gas blows across. Firing rifle & Lewis gun. 09;07:38 Taking sample w/ vacuum bulb & using phosgene. Men in trenches seen thru smoke. Men move in trench towards camera w/o masks, grab masks & put on. 09:09:00 Title: Fatigue party caught by gas cloud. Men shoveling at side of bluff, officers watch. Sentry sees gas cloud, masks put on. 09:10:09 Title: Clearing trench w/ Ayerton fans. Men flailing w/ sack (?). Clearing gas from dug out by fanning. Masks are taken off & rifles cleaned. Defenses; WW1;