Wasn't urine used to activate WW I gas masks? Jack To: Revlist@yahoogroups.com From: jlnjake@... Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:30:15 -0800 Subject: Re:...
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Eric Kelly
rogerscadetc...
Mar 2, 2010 4:54 am
Everytime I sign onto Revlist, I realize I share the passion and love of history with so many people that i have so much in common with that i can't help but...
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john navarro
jlnjake
Mar 2, 2010 4:55 am
I don't know about that but I did read in a WWI history that during the First gas attack by the Germans it was reported that a British Officer was overheard...
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bdodgeweaver
Mar 2, 2010 6:16 am
... Mike - Roy's kit for a plain haversack (no "GR/Broad Arrow" stamp) is $12. It's the cheap and authentic - Thad Weaver, German Rt....
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irishbrit
ctrevwar
Mar 2, 2010 8:19 am
That would be the ship HMS Peepod. :-) No seriously, I heard urine was used to brown musket barrels. Hence the "Brown Bess" musket. Jim Murphy 9th Foot...
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lobster1768
Mar 2, 2010 12:31 pm
Hello Dear List. Most Regiments wore there Laceloops evenly spaced on the Lapels, whilst a few wore them arranged in pairs. I wonder, if the practice of doing...
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Glenn Williams
gfwilliams607
Mar 2, 2010 12:37 pm
Yes, as chemical weapons became more widely employed, Allied soldiers were instructed to soak cloth in urine as an expedient filter for chlorine gas.  ...
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gffranks3
Mar 2, 2010 12:39 pm
Mike et al., I highly recommend Roy Najecki's haversacks. I bought the kit and enjoyed creating the finished haversack from it. Everything you need plus...
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avalonforge
avlonfrg
Mar 2, 2010 1:09 pm
Years ago when I first started my business, I had purchased some white buff musket slings from Pakistan. By the odor, there was no doubt that urine was used as...
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lenthecooper
Mar 2, 2010 2:30 pm
Joe, that was a Canadian medical officer from Montreal,at the Second Battle of Ypres. Being Canadian, the quote was more like 'piss on your handkerchiefs...
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eric_schnitzer@...
ericfuzil
Mar 2, 2010 2:38 pm
Hi Alex, Colonels of British regiments often had great leeway when choosing certain points of uniform detail for their corps. As time progressed, their ability...
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Scott L. Lance
njrangerlt
Mar 2, 2010 2:46 pm
Sorry for the cross posts. Who will have this knife? http://s336.photobucket.com/albums/n342/njranger/For%20Sale/ The goodwife bought me this knife while I was...
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Eric Kelly
rogerscadetc...
Mar 2, 2010 2:57 pm
I was finally able to start the project i asked about for so long. I've had a Double bag knapsack for some time now that I've been wanting to paint properly...
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lobster1768
Mar 2, 2010 3:16 pm
[EDIT] Well, I had a Look at the Morier Grenadiers from the 1750s. That of the Regiment in Question Had no longer yellow Turnbacks and Lapels, with Red Cuffs,...
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lobster1768
Mar 2, 2010 3:22 pm
Hello. Thank you Sir, for your Input. It is H.M. 37th Reg.t of Foot, I am looking for. I have now a growing Number of Uniforms, piling in my Rooms, and the are...
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Alan
tarheelrrds
Mar 2, 2010 3:34 pm
Urine Preferably first morning urine of a young boy was collected (it is more concentrated and cleaner) and used in the dyeing of true Indigo blue.There is a...
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Eric Kelly
rogerscadetc...
Mar 2, 2010 3:47 pm
I recall reading in a book about Philadelphia during the Revolution, that on mainstreet Philadelphia there was an Allstate Insurance Office that sold...
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Diana
dianarubino1957
Mar 2, 2010 9:48 pm
Dear All, Does anyone know what the bank and currency situation was in 1789 at the time of Washington's inauguration, before Hamilton created the BUS? I've...
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Mike E
mikee0137
Mar 2, 2010 10:03 pm
Should have made it a little clearer. One person suggested a knapsack for carrying the 21st century items. As I stated, I have a good haversack, in the...
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bobjinpa@...
awibobj
Mar 2, 2010 10:30 pm
I found this online, perhaps it will be of use. http://mises.org/journals/jls/2_4/2_4_8.pdf Bob Johnson Only 2 things are infinite - the universe and human...
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James Stewart
greateagle1812
Mar 2, 2010 10:42 pm
Good Day!!! You will find that a lot of money was Spanish circulating in America. The coins were made in S.A. and never went to Spain. They just went directly ...
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bolton1812
Mar 3, 2010 12:20 am
Mike, I guess that would have been me. I wasn't suggesting a knapsack "for" 21st c. items, rather, put your 21st c. items in your knapsack. A smallish cloth...
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bolton1812
Mar 3, 2010 12:34 am
Mike, As to style...depends on your impression. A single bag style is really brainless to make...kinda like a slightly oversized haversack (OMG that word)...
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RonaldM
rjmalmgren68
Mar 3, 2010 2:37 am
All, I purchased a MVTC Spanish musket "secondhand", but unfired. It was the 2nd or 3rd sold. Perhaps the original owner wasn't enamored with his new...
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Todd Post
secondvaregt
Mar 3, 2010 3:25 am
Mike, ... I don't think it's a matter of knapsacks becoming "into vogue for the Continental soldier", in fact I think the point has been made in this whole...
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Mark Hilliard
navyagent1812
Mar 3, 2010 3:33 am
"Pussers" is a later and lighter Victorian-era blend, the original RN rum mixture having changed several times over the centuries. The modern "Myers",...
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avalonforge
avlonfrg
Mar 3, 2010 1:51 pm
Now I don't know that much about skin heads for drums, but those of you who do, may want to take a look at these. *Goat Rawhide for Drums (average 8 ft/each)* ...
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Diana
dianarubino1957
Mar 3, 2010 3:20 pm
Thanks, guys!...
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Joe
colonelogden...
Mar 3, 2010 4:40 pm
Greetings Blues News Online a site devoted to the history of the New Jersey Brigade and New Jersey during the Revolutionary War has been searching the internet...
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Eric Kelly
rogerscadetc...
Mar 3, 2010 9:07 pm
Hello all, i applied my second coat of boiled linseed oil, iron oxide, and dryer paint mixture to my knapsack. Once this coat has fully cured and...
