Unprepared for German forces to use chlorine gas as a weapon, many Allied soldiers suffocated, unprotected, during the Battle of Ypres in 1915. But they gained protection thanks to the efforts of ...

Gas terrified soldiers in WW1, but it killed comparatively few of them, at least on the Western Front. So why was it the one WW1 weapon to be banned?

With the use of gas masks, Germany wanted something that would affect the whole body. German scientists developed mustard gas and used it for the first time on July 12, 1917.

Each of the French soldiers in the Argonne now has a felt mask that fits over the nose and mouth, and in the crevices of this mask is a whitish powder which neutralizes the German gas, thought to ...

WW1 soldier's diary to be digitised. Published. 15 August 2014. Share. close ... quiet in afternoon until about 4pm when a cloud of German gas was seen arriving catching two Regiments in the ...