During World War I, the French Army was the first to employ tear gas, using 26 mm grenades filled with ethyl bromoacetate in August 1914. The small quantities of gas delivered, roughly 19 cm 3 (1.2 cu in) per cartridge, were not even detected by the Germans.

May 17, 2021 · As the battle began, the Germans released 170 metric tons of chlorine gas from more than 5,700 cylinders buried in a four-mile line across the front. British officer Martin Greener described the...

The first use of poison gas by the Germans was associated with trench warfare and depended upon the generation of a dense cloud of a heavy gas, which was intended to travel along with the wind, hugging the ground and falling into the trenches, where its work was mainly done.

Chemical weapons were a type of weaponized gas used during World War I to inflict damage on enemy troops. These weapons were designed to release toxic chemicals, which could cause serious injury or death to those exposed to them.

The chlorine was a strong irritant on the lungs, with prolonged exposure proving fatal. The immediate public outcry for retaliation resulted in quick adoption of defensive anti-gas measures including new companies of Royal Engineers responsible for offensive gas warfare.

Gas warfare is a method of war that employs weapons that are designed to cause casualties primarily through the use of harmful chemical agents. The First World War constitutes the most extensive incidence of gas warfare in the 20th century, and poison gas remains associated with the horrors of trench warfare in public memory.

This was the first effective use of poison gas on the Western Front and the debut of Germany’s newest weapon in its chemical arsenal, chlorine gas, which irritated the lung tissue causing a choking effect that could cause death.

Jan 30, 2015 · In February 1918 one soldier of the 1/22nd London Regiment developed a sore throat and reported that he had been gassed. Although there had been no reports of a gas attack, panic spread - and...

Mar 31, 2015 · Gas masks used in World War One were made as a result of poison gas attacks that took the Allies in the trenches on the Western Front by surprise. Early gas masks were crude as would be expected as no-one had thought that poison gas would ever be used in warfare as the mere thought seemed too shocking.

In the A.E.F., 70,522 cases related to gas exposure were reported, 31.49 per cent of all casualties. Of this number, 1,221 died, the majority from mustard gas exposure. An additional 2,853 officers and men were invalided home because of gas-related disabilities.