#World war 1 gas mask full
Another was hopelessly smashed up and must have got it full in the chest. One man was unconscious, and died of gas later. We pulled four men out of the debris unharmed. Just over 100 years ago, the word gas came to have an entirely different and sinister meaning. One man was sick all over the sandbags and another was coughing his heart up. Key Words: gas, warfare, chlorine, phosgene, mustard gas, World War 1, Fritz Haber Introduction To an anaesthetist the word ‘gas’ refers to some of our everyday ‘tools of the trade’. The others were slower and suffered for it. I had my respirator on in a hurry and most of our men were as quick.
With my first glance I saw what looked like half a dozen bodies, mingled with sandbags, and then I smelt gas and realised that these were gas shells. After a quarter of an hour of this sort of thing, there was a sudden crash in the trench and ten feet of the parapet, just beyond m, was blown away and everyone around blinded by dust. These shells came over just above the parapet, in a flood, much more quickly than we could count them. It sounded like a gigantic firecracker, with two distinct explosions. The Huns started to bombard us with a shell, which was new to us. H S Clapham, a British soldier fighting on the Western Front, wrote about his experiences of a gas attack upon his return home:
The more experienced soldiers also realised that it would be fatal to dive into a shell hole during an attack as the gas was heavier than air, and so would sink down. While not particularly effective, they did develop rapidly during the war and did save many lives. Soldiers who had experienced trench warfare for months or even years would quickly attune themselves to the sound of gas attack warning sirens, and would put their respirators on very quickly.
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