The Second Battle of Ypres was the Great War battle in which Germany introduced chlorine gas against the British in 1915. After the battle, samples of the gas was passed on to the US, who used it against their enemies. General George Armstrong Custer was glad to be using it when it finally arrived to his front.
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| - The Second Battle of Ypres was the Great War battle in which Germany introduced chlorine gas against the British in 1915. After the battle, samples of the gas was passed on to the US, who used it against their enemies. General George Armstrong Custer was glad to be using it when it finally arrived to his front.
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- A.-L.-T. de Ceuninck
- Albrecht of Württemberg
- Henri Gabriel Putz
- Horace Smith-Dorrien
- Theophile Figeys
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- Dusk was falling when from the German trenches in front of the French line rose that strange green cloud of death. The light north-easterly breeze wafted it toward them, and in a moment death had them by the throat. One cannot blame them that they broke and fled. In the gathering dark of that awful night they fought with the terror, running blindly in the gas-cloud, and dropping with breasts heaving in agony and the slow poison of suffocation mantling their dark faces. Hundreds of them fell and died; others lay helpless, froth upon their agonized lips and their racked bodies powerfully sick, with tearing nausea at short intervals. They too would die later – a slow and lingering death of agony unspeakable. The whole air was tainted with the acrid smell of chlorine that caught at the back of men's throats and filled their mouths with its metallic taste.
- We knew there was something was wrong. We started to march towards Ypres but we couldn't get past on the road with refugees coming down the road. We went along the railway line to Ypres and there were people, civilians and soldiers, lying along the roadside in a terrible state. We heard them say it was gas. We didn't know what the Hell gas was. When we got to Ypres we found a lot of Canadians lying there dead from gas the day before, poor devils, and it was quite a horrible sight for us young men. I was only twenty so it was quite traumatic and I've never forgotten nor ever will forget it.
- The Germans set fire to a chemical product of sulphur chloride which they had placed in front of their own trenches, causing a thick yellow cloud to be blown towards the trenches of the French and Belgians.
The cloud of smoke advanced like a yellow low wall, overcoming all those who breathed in poisonous fumes. The French were unable to see what they were doing or what was happening. The Germans then charged, driving the bewildered French back past their own trenches. Those who were enveloped by the fumes were not able to see each other half a yard apart.
I have seen some of the wounded who were overcome by the sulphur fumes, and they were progressing favourably. The effect of the sulphur appears to be only temporary. The after-effects seem to be a bad swelling of the eyes, but the sight is not damaged.
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| - The Second Battle of Ypres by Richard Jack, 146 x 234½ in., at the Canadian War Museum.
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| - Captain Hugh Pollard, The Memoirs of a VC
- Private W. Hay of the Royal Scots
- The Daily Chronicle
- The Daily Mail
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- Entente victory
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| - The Second Battle of Ypres was the Great War battle in which Germany introduced chlorine gas against the British in 1915. After the battle, samples of the gas was passed on to the US, who used it against their enemies. General George Armstrong Custer was glad to be using it when it finally arrived to his front.
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