The Daily Mirror reports the Germans' use of 'asphyxiating gas' in the trenches around Ypres, details some of the gains made by the Allies on the Western Front and provides the latest war news ...

I am writing in good health. There is terrible slaughter out here at present, at the second battle of Ypres, where all the fighting is going on. You would be sorry to see all the grand churches ...

Britain's last survivor of WWI kept the true horrors of the trenches to himself until a few days before he died ...