Battle of Ypres

How did soldiers avoid chlorine gas poisoning at the Second Battle of Ypres ... 

The bloody Second Battle of Ypres was fought in France on 22 April 1915, and was the first time in modem warfare when poison gases were employed. At a crucial... 

The information concerning the Second Battle of Ypres is embedded within a disturbing account of man s scope for evil, World War One A Narrative by Philip Warner, Cassell Military Classics, 1998. The ghastly effects of poisoning with chlorine gas are recounted at http //www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic851.htm. 

Source-. T.J. Mitchell and G.M. Smith, Official History of the Great War Medical Services Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War, London (1931). (Figures for 1915 refer to British casualties only, while those for later years include British Dominion casualties as well. The 1915 figures therefore do not include the heavy Canadian chemical warfare casualties during the Second Battle of Ypres.)... 

French J (1915). Second Battle of Ypres. The Times, 12 July, p. 9. 

A heavy German artillery bombardment preceded the second battle of Ypres that began on April 22, 1915. Ypres was (or had been it hardly existed anymore) a modest market town in southeastern Belgium about eight miles north of the French border and less than thirty miles inland from the... 

Although Fritz Haber was a fine scientist and the success of his ammonia synthesis made him a rich man, he ultimately had a tragic life. At the start of World War 1 he joined the German Ghemical Warfare Service, where he supervised the use of chlorine as a chemical weapon during the battle of Ypres in France. This first use of a chemical weapon led to further tragic developments in chemical warfare and also to personal tragedy for Haber. His wife... 

Chlorine gas is another chemical agent with a history of use going back almost 100 years. During World War I, chlorine gas, sometimes known as bertholite, was used by the German army during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium. Because chlorine can be... 

He suggested that mustard gas would have had an even greater impact had it not been that the German supply was not too plentiful and if it had been stored at battery positions, so as to be instantly available at times when it might have had the maximum effect. Nonetheless, its use at the Third Battle of Ypres, in the spring of 1918, interfered seriously with British artillery and troop concentration areas. ... 

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