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A boy shows two other children how to put on a gas mask. (Photo by David Savill/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). UK, 18th January 1937
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Metropolitan Police Constables wearing gas masks line up to enter a mobile gas chamber at East Ham Police Station, London. This official gas training lesson is intended to give them valuable experience in the event of a genuine emergency. (Photo by David Savill/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 13th March 1937
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A guard wearing a gas mask signals the go-ahead to an experimental anti-air raid train during a demonstration at Euston Station, London. The new LMS train has two coaches, one equipped with decontaminating apparatus and one intended as an ARP instructional unit. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 24th November 1937
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Wearing protective suits and gas masks, members of the local Air Raid Precautions Decontamination Squad appeal for new volunteers outside the Council Offices in Esher, Surrey, (Photo by H. Allen/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 14th February 1938
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London firemen testing the oxygen gauge on breathing apparatus at Southwark, south London. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 25th May 1936
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A practical training session in bridge building during war time conditions, provided by the Royal Engineers, at a camp near Weymouth. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 16th June 1937
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Soldiers being instructed on how to use a smoke helmet by the CQMS fire-instructor at the Fire Brigade Station in Aldershot. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 15th April 1936
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Some of London's telephone operators and engineers, trying out their gas masks at the anti-gas civilian training centre in Gloucester, where they were taught how to deal with gas attacks. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 13th February 1937
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London firemen acclimatising themselves to the breathing apparatus they sometimes have to wear during the course of duty. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 25th May 1936
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A decontamination squad trained by the Corporation of the City of London to deal with gas attacks from the air. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 23rd March 1937
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A fireman wearing a gas-mask directing water on a house at Chatham, Kent, during an air-raid exercise. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images). 1938
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A sergeant of the Grenadier Guard seen shouting orders through a gas mask. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images). 1938
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A demonstration of gas masks and an anti-gas service van at the Public Health Exhibition in the Royal Agricultural Hall, London. (Photo by David Savill/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 16th November 1936
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Westminster schoolboys making their way to school with an employee of the Westminster City Council taking final tests in and anti-gas course. (Photo by Watkins/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 5th February 1938
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A team training at the Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Owners' Rescue station at Boothstown, Lancashire, apply artificial respiration to a 'survivor' during an exercise. (Photo by Arthur Tanner/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 13th May 1936
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Brighton, Hove and Southern Railway police wearing gas masks. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 24th November 1936
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Sergeant Taylor of Blackburn Police adjusting his constables gas mask during a gas drill, 10th September 1936. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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