Original British WWI Wooden Gas Alarm Rattle For Use as Gas Alarm Only Madsen LMG Lack of funding slowed and

Lack of funding slowed and almost stopped Army uniform modernization after World War One ended and the uniform barely changed until 1926

Scabbard Length: 17" (part missing)

The RM-38 was approved for use in 1938 and entered production in 1939

with rare split focus ranging grid in the right eye piece

Original British WWI Wooden Gas Alarm Rattle For Use as Gas Alarm Only Madsen LMG Lack of funding slowed andOriginal Item: Only One Available. In WWI poison gas was introduced, now totally outlawed as inhumane. With all the noise in the trenches, the wooden gas rattle was adopted to alert soldiers in the trenches of an impending attack. These rattles had a totally unique sound, and were quite jarring, being able to be heard above the din of war. The fear of course once WWII began was that the NSDAP War machine would reintroduce poison gas, which would be