Ypres, Battle

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.)... 

The frantic battles around Ypres, during which German forces... 

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... 

Even with a vintage of 40 years (or more), mustard contents can remain highly toxic. In the 1950s an accidental burst from an old mustard shell from World War I killed two children, while severely injuring several others. Even as recently as 1990, after handling a mustard shell left over from the war at Verdun, an elderly Frenchman suffered serious burns on his hands and arms. As a tribute to those who fought and died in the first major cauldron of chemicals in battle, a museum was built in 1998 near Poelkapelle, Belgium, that displays trench warfare re-creations and artifacts from the battlefields of Ypres. 

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