But the most infamous - and deadliest - was mustard gas, in reality an oily vapour ... in his war-torn country - only in the first world war were poison gases used on a large scale in combat.
AN INCREASINGLY desperate Russia has begun deploying a mysterious new gas on the battlefield in Ukraine. The sinister use of ...
some containing still lethal poison gas, which the army took away and detonated. The bayonets of World War I soldiers stick out of the trenches as they carefully watch for the enemy. National ...
Casualty stations were set up near battlefields, some by the Red Cross. The First World War was the first-time poison gas was used on a large scale during war. The gas could affect someone in just ...
Born in 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire, Owen enlisted in the Army in 1915 and witnessed the trench warfare of World War One ...
World War I was the first major war to be fought ... knowing that incoming shellfire or poison gas or a sniper’s bullet could take him or a buddy out at any time. Lice, filth, boredom, and ...
"I should say that poison gas warfare is positively the most humane type invented, because of its humanity; it must not be forgotten that it proved itself the most efficient during the World War ...
A parade to mark the opening of a World War One memorial will be recreated ... a plaque was added in tribute to those who ...
This was shorthand for a World War ... after the war was declared. One hundred-six years ago, in the fall of 1918, they were shot at, hit by exploding shells or poisoned by gas.