A very rare German in the trench!!!!!
 

with gas mask! ~~~Eric

I suspect from the cartridge belt and the canteen that this is not a German soldier.

He may be Spanish, as all the gear would seem to make sense if he were.

I agree..............

What a bloody miserable existance...Mud, heat or cold, trying to save your skin shooting a broom while looking thru the lens of a gas mask...
dju

You both may be right. The photograph didn't come with a discription! Heres one for his horse!!

Sleeping in one during the hot summer at Ft Erwin CA, Ft Campbell, Ky or at Grafenwohr, Germany was no picnic either and to also be in that hot rubber NBC suit too :grr:. Hated the friggin things.............:grr: Now, the middle of winter when it was -0 plus North Pole temperature wasn't all that bad. :thumbup:

Wearing these in any war
 

must be miserable!

The gas blindness was horrific. Interesting that the horse gas mask does not protect the mount's eyes.

My Grandfather was gassed in WW1. It finally caught up to him and killed him 10 years later, in 1928.

When was it finally outlawed!!

"My Grandfather was gassed in WW1. It finally caught up to him and killed him 10 years later, in 1928"

So what aspect of the gas caught up with Grandfather. Lung scarring?
dju

My Grandfather was also gassed and he killed himself a few years after. Joe

I didn't intend to bring back bad memories! Only a historical perscective of just how horrible it must have been for both sides! My German grandfather who died in 1978 had a piece of a bullet still in his arm and never wanted it to be removed!!! His brother Alfred died years later as a direct result of his wounds sustained in the France! Grandpa survived to have me on his lap in 1960!

Yes, lung, throat/esophagus scarring, along with some eye damage. My Grandmother told that he was constantly receiving infections of all types until he passed away. My Dad was two when he passed.