In the third of a series of articles on the history of the 3rd Mons, local author Douglas McArthur recalls the Battalion's ...

John Walton was just 20 when he fell on the Western Front - more than a century on his sacrifice is recorded on a new ...

A similar attack at Nieuwpoort in March 1915 was also unsuccessful. After 10 weeks’ research, Haber oversaw the opening of almost 6000 cylinders of chlorine gas at the Second Battle of Ypres on ...

The ensuing battle - later known as the Second Battle of Ypres - was to last almost a month and cost ... I wish I had kept him with me." The gas attack of April 22nd had caused widespread panic among ...

In 1915, during World War I, German forces became the first to use poison gas on the Western Front during the Second Battle of Ypres. In 1954, the Army-McCarthy hearings began in which Sen.

In 1915, during World War I, German forces became the first to use poison gas on the Western Front during the Second Battle of Ypres. In 1954, the Army-McCarthy hearings began in which Sen.

Then in April 1915, at the second battle of Ypres in France the Germans used poison gas again. This time it was a green gas filled cloud five miles wide which hovered over the French soldiers.

On a fine spring afternoon in 1915, a new weapon of war was unleashed near the town of Ypres, Belgium. The First World War was well underway when — on April 22, 1915 — the German army released ...

Although successful on the surface, the gas attack at the Second Battle of Ypres, a city in Belgium, also highlighted the operational drawbacks of chemical weapons. Targeting an adversary with a ...

FRANCE 24: Why did the British decide to attack Passchendaele? 'The Second Battle of Ypres' had ended in May 1915, when the Germans had used poison gas for the first time. They had not achieved a ...

In April 1915, the Germans surprised British and Allied troops at the Second Battle of Ypres by flooding the battlefield with chlorine gas ... would be vulnerable to attack if it was, the treaty ...

The Second Battle of Ypres began with a surprise German attack on 22 April 1915. This also marked the first use of chemical warfare – chlorine gas – by the Germans. The poisonous gas killed thousands ...