Kitchener, Lord

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Another officer suggested using sulfur dioxide as a chemical weapon. Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, was not interested in the concept for the army but suggested trying the navy. At the Admiralty, the idea found a... 

Military appreciation of chemical weapons varied considerably. In September 1914, Lieutenant-General the Earl of Dundonald apprised Lord Kitchener of the various plans left by his grandfather. Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, for the use of sulphur dioxide clouds to drive an enemy from a fortified position. Kitchener at once discounted them as did Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson. Only Winston Churchill s imaginative interest kept the scheme alive, and eventually a modified version of Cochrane s proposal was put into practice, not as lethal gas clouds but as naval smoke screens. Even when line officers returned from France and inquired about the possibility of using stink bombs to dear enemy dug-outs, the response was unfavourable. Some lachrymatory substances were examined at the Imperial College of Sdence, and, unoffidally, stink bombs were offered to Sir John French in case the enemy resorted to similar methods. The Commander-in-Chief brusquely rejected the offer. ... 

Within a few days after the Ypres attack, on the appeal of Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, British women had equipped the entire British Expeditionary Forces with gauze pads which could be used as a crude mask to protect against toxics. The French provided similar pads, and, like both the British and Germans, furnished chemicals to wet the pads in order to increase their filtering potential. The development of an offensive capability in gas warfare naturally took longer. The British designated elements of the War Office to initiate... 

On 23 April, Sir John French telegraphed to the War Office, requesting that respirators be supplied and that approval be given for the British to retaliate in kind. Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War, replied the following day that... 

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