Word: gas-mask
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...types of gas-mask were always being issued. One kind was known in Graves' battalion as "the goggle-eyed b-r with the tit." Graves' nose had been broken boxing, so he had to have an operation while on leave in order to breathe through the mask. In July, 1916, he was so severely wounded in the lung by a shell that he was reported dead, and the colonel wrote a letter of condolence to his mother. Later, in England, he had difficulty cashing cheques because of his illegal vitality...