GASMASK INVENTOR

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1921, Page 1

GASMASK INVENTOR

COHPOUAI. WHO lIKI.PKD TO IiKAT ’i’ll K Gl*’. 15 MANS. Oct. -JH. A corporal who became a saviour ol liis country was honoured, when a memorial plaque to tile lale l.iriil-( oh K. Harrison. Conti oiler ol Chemical Warfare, was unveiled in the Kxaminali.in Hall of the I’liai maeeili ieal Such iv, Ifloomshiiry-sqiiare. \\ .1 . This corporal was a rnaityr ol seieiiee, victim of his own discovery. He died on November I. I!MH. iiioiiia aggravaled by exposllte to gas ,luring tlu* course ol his experiments. 11,. was the man uho saved the ISrinsh A rill v. Ill* uas IT when he joined Ihe Sportsmen’s liattalioii as a private m |(ll-, and when the Germans made their devastating gas attack m the Ypies salient in the same year. Ilain SUM, who possessed l.ioh eheiuiejil qunlilicniiuus, was tninslut t ed a*> a (oi|>oia. to 11ic* special branc.h *>t the l o r .i

neers. lie was the inventor ol the gas mu-.-(the box respirator) which every sodier in Krauee and Khmders earned with the same devotion as that « 1 1 which lie carried his rillc. The gas mask heat the Germans, and its invci.toi in ,()I7 was promoted lieiit-eol.. and Imallv Ik* became Controller ol Chemical Warfare. Shortly before Ins death lie "ahave been promoted to the ''sink ol brigadier-general and awarded We Legion of Honour. He »’,11*0.,t ,<- , eivilio these honours, hut every soldier who carried a gas mask m the Great War will hi—. the <’*-mory * ’ ( m poral Harrison, who died a hem and a martyr.