ALTHOUGH OVER 30,000 SOLDIERS WERE BLINDED during the Great War, many thousands were saved by means of a steel visor worn as a peak to the tin hat. This is now being further improved by Sir Richard Cruise, eye specialist to Queen Mary.
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Southland Times, Issue 23989, 2 December 1939, Page 10
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43ALTHOUGH OVER 30,000 SOLDIERS WERE BLINDED during the Great War, many thousands were saved by means of a steel visor worn as a peak to the tin hat. This is now being further improved by Sir Richard Cruise, eye specialist to Queen Mary. Southland Times, Issue 23989, 2 December 1939, Page 10
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