DEATH OF GAS MASK INVENTOR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 89, 9 January 1919, Page 6

DEATH OF GAS MASK INVENTOR

'victim' of the epidemic. - / Colonel E. F. Harrison, the inventor of the British gas musk, has died of. pneumonia. When 47" he enlisted as a private in -Mays 1!)15. Ho was going overseas eoon afterwards when there was a call ■for chemists to fi«ht the German poison riw and he was transferred to the Koyal Engincers. He vent to the Chemical Warfare Department of the Ministry of Munitions, of which he was controller when he died. • ■ . • . - Ita over a year he was in charge or research for gas defence and the maimfaetiire of masks and respirators. Jt is due mainly to hie brilliant work that our troons have been so well protected apd that no new gas has been ""P against them for. which he had not provided the antidote. • .■ ■. ■_■ He built up an immense new lidußtrv and millions of his'respirators have been issued to British, American, awl Italian troops. He never spared himself, . Jμ, even when ho lost his eldest son m the Battle of the Sonime in July; -1916.