Mustard gas, no mask: This WWI corpsman somehow survived Belleau Wood. ... But with the arrival of reinforcements, the Americans and Germans each launched renewed efforts to secure Belleau Wood.

Of the nearly 3,000 or so French soldiers requiring such masks, Ladd made about 185. In 1932, the French government made her a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

Protective mask used in tanks. The tank crews used many purpose built and adapted items of head gear to protect themselves from the splinters of hot metal created by bullets hitting the tank.

He had started making masks for disfigured British soldiers in a facility the soldiers called the “Tin Noses Shop.” “My work begins where the work of the surgeon is completed,” Wood wrote ...

Wood's work became known by 1917 and similar work was undertaken in Paris by American sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd, where she created 185 masks by the end of 1919.

Wounds and mustard gas could not stop Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Orlando Petty in 1918, but they may have caught up with him in 1932.

Wood's department in London was disbanded in 1919, but it is not known how many masks he created. Dr Biernoff said: "Very, very few of the masks have survived and none of the surviving masks were ...