Original British WWI Trench Warfare Gas Rattle - Dated 1918 Category_MG 34 Accessories Everything else is perfectly standard

Everything else is perfectly standard

reporting on its movements

except that instead of the belled barrel muzzle

by the close of the century it meant something completely different

Original British WWI Trench Warfare Gas Rattle - Dated 1918 Category_MG 34 Accessories Everything else is perfectly standardOriginal Item: Only One Available. During WW1 trench warfare and the terror of a gas attack was continually present. Due to the close quarters and explosions so much noise was always occurring that it became essential to find a unique way of warning the troops that a gas attack was under way. Whistles, sirens and all forms of explosive reports were hourly occurrences so the introduction of the gas rattle was adopted. Basically, this is an all wood