Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Our multi-part series on British and Canadian NBCW/CBRN gear continues with a look at two Cold War Canadian gas masks - the C3 and C4 - and the various patterns of infantry equipment they were used with.

Part I of the NBCW/CBRN series: youtube.com/watch?v=DViWRTxz6PQ

MSA All-Service Gas Mask Video: youtube.com/watch?v=i8XHV3CaBII&pp=ygUYbXNhIGFsbCBzZXJ2aWNlIGdhcyBtYXNr

0:00 Introduction
0:30 C3 Mask Evolution and Features
2:26 C3 Filter Canister Models
3:23 C4 Mask Features
5:03 Origins of Pattern 1951 Equipment
7:00 Pattern 51 Gas Mask Carrier
7:53 Evolution of Pattern 1964 Equipment
10:00 Pattern 64 Gas Mask Carrier
10:38 Evolution of Pattern 1982 Equipment
12:45 Pattern 82 Gas Mask Carrier
13:00 Outro

SOURCES:

Canadian Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare Publication - Defensive Clothing and Equipment, 1960, Department of National Defence, Ottawa
JSP 410 - Survive to Fight, Edition II, Command of the Defence Council, Ministry of Defence, 1990
https://talesfromthesupplydepot.blog/2017/02/14/82-pattern-webbing-overview/
https://talesfromthesupplydepot.blog/2017/02/07/64-pattern-webbing-overview/
mpmuseum.org/postwarequipment2.html
canadiansoldiers.com/equipment/loadbearing/1951pattern.htm
gasmaskandrespirator.fandom.com/wiki/Respirator,_Anti-Gas,_Light_(WWII)
gasmaskandrespirator.fandom.com/wiki/Canadian_Light_Anti-Gas_Respirators
gasmaskandrespirator.fandom.com/wiki/M11
gasmaskandrespirator.fandom.com/wiki/Airboss_Low_Burden_Mask_(LBM)
gasmaskandrespirator.fandom.com/wiki/C4
gasmaskandrespirator.fandom.com/wiki/C3
paratrooper.be/articles/gas-detection-brassards
rsdl.com
chemm.hhs.gov/antidote_nerveagents.htm
https://talesfromthesupplydepot.blog/2021/09/03/nbc-suit-no-1-mk-2-smock/
https://talesfromthesupplydepot.blog/2021/09/10/nbc-no1-mk-2-trousers/
https://talesfromthesupplydepot.blog/2017/07/20/nbc-suit-mk-iii-part-1-smock/
https://talesfromthesupplydepot.blog/2017/07/21/nbc-suit-mk-iii-part-2-trousers/