Now all roads lead to France and heavy is the tread
Of the living; but the dead returning lightly dance.
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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Loos 1915: The British Respond with Gas to Germany's First Gas Attack


German Soldiers Among Some of the Allied Gas
Casualties During the Second Battle of Ypres

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First Gas: Second Ypres, 22 April 1915


Response: Loos, 24 September 1915

Loos Battlefield




British Soldiers Advancing through the Gas




British Advance During the Battle

Source: Chemical Warfare in World War I: The American Experience, 1917-1918, U.S. Army, 1984

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