![]() ![]() Facts that emerged, after the war, confirmed that the French had indeed used hand-grenades (originally produced for the French gendarmerie) containing a tear gas - ethylbromacetate - on their sector of the Western Front. The Germans also accused the British of using similar gas projectiles at Ypres on 15 April. They categorically stated that even at the outbreak of war the French had 30,000 shells in their arsenal carrying a poisonous gas derived from bromine, and that in April 1915 the French Army had specifically launched projectiles containing poisonous gas on the German sectors in Champagne, Verdun, the Meuse/Moselle rivers and Ypres between 13 and 15 April 1915. The Germans were particularly emphatic about the use of war gases. This was in clear contravention of the 1899 Hague Convention on this subject. In early 1915, accounts were freely circulated in turn by the French, British and Germans that poisonous gas was being used as a weapon of war by their opponents on the Western Front. The rationale for and the deployment of poisonous gas on The Western Front in the Great War Introduction Lanoe Hawker, VC: Pilot, Innovator and Inventor.The Cotton-Mill Worker, the Stockbroker and the Flammenwerfer: The 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade at Hooge.Every man for himself: The Loss of HMS Formidable 1 January 1915.Forever Friends: Laurie Denison and Clifford Thompson.FILM REVIEW : All Quiet on the Western Front.Tolkien’s “bitter winnowing” and the War Memorial at St.Addison Barnes Perrott Hadden MC - South Irish Horse in the First World War.Sussex Women at War: Iva Mary Harland and Fanny Amelia Kennaird.A bloody war or a sickly season: The East Yorkshire Regiment’s Regular Officers of August 1914 and the Great War.Hobkirk DSO as GOC 14 Australian Brigade, July 1916 Through a Glass Darkly: The Appointment of T/Lieutenant-Colonel C.J.'The Grave by the Roadside' : Remembering 2/Lt.A Cockney Soldier and the Great War: Corporal William Charles Blumsom MM. ![]()
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