Now put your books down…and get your gas masks out. Quietly. Now take them carefully out of their boxes - no, no, Isobel, don't drag at it…you show her how to do ...
Me with my Gas Mask on in Kelsey Park, Beckenham in 1940 I was only an infant (4 years old) when the war started. When gas masks were introduced I prayed that we would never have to use them as I ...