Original British WWII Wood Air Raid Alarm / Gas Rattle - Maker marked and dated 1941 Madsen LMG most likely in 1941

most likely in 1941

It withdrew into Norway when the Germans evacuated Finland in late 1944

We have only a very few of these early sight assemblies

covers the invention

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Original British WWII Wood Air Raid Alarm / Gas Rattle - Maker marked and dated 1941 Madsen LMG most likely in 1941Original 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