UK/US Gas Mask? - Identify this uniform

[Chris Boonzaier]

Hi,

I assume this poor guy is either British or american....

From the strip of what looks to be cotton, sewn insid the wool tuni... does anyone know what nationality he is?

Thanks

Chris

[Tony]

Can you tell how many buttons/button holes he has on his uniform? I can't see to well on the screen (the optician reckons I need glasses).

I don't know much about gas masks, could he be Belgian in a late war uniform?

Tony

[Chris Boonzaier]

Can you tell how many buttons/button holes he has on his uniform? I can't see to well on the screen (the optician reckons I need glasses).

I don't know much about gas masks, could he be Belgian in a late war uniform?

Tony

I think the Belgians had French masks... this looks like a US/UK mask

[AOK4]

No other indications on the picture? I mean who took the picture and when?

[Chris Boonzaier]

No other indications on the picture? I mean who took the picture and when?

Just as is, small photo with no info :-(

[AOK4]

And no clue from which collection it came?

My guts say, judging on the sandy environment, a pic from a British victim from the Operation Strandfest area (Belgian coast July 1917)...

[Chris Boonzaier]

Thats a posibility. unfortunately there was nothing else with it to give any pointers.

Best

Chris

[Chris Liontas]

The mask is definately UK/US

does it look like his jacket has a collar to it? Looking at the photo, if I trace up the seam, it looks like there is an open collar flap right behind his head. The Yanks were using a closed choker collar rather than the British open collar. I would bet my money he is British or Commonwealth.

He also looks to have suspenders on. Again, more standard Commonwealth I have found than American

Edited November 6, 2011 by Chris Liontas