Medical Pioneers 

This section recognizes Canadian whoes discoveries and/or inventions had a significant impact on military medicine

Cluny MacPherson “Gas Mask”

Cluny MacPherson “Gas Mask”

Dr Cluny MacPherson, a Newfoundlander and Newfoundland Regiment Medical Officer, was the inventor of the gas mask which was the most important protective device of the First World War, protecting countless soldiers from blindness, disfigurement or injury to their throats and lungs. For his services, Dr MacPherson was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1918.

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