Picture No | 10215219 |
Date | 1915 |
Description | Wearing respirators in a trench 1915 |
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British soldiers wearing respirators while digging a trench to guard against fumes from bursting shells. The Germans first used poison gas at Ypres on 22nd April 1915.
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Source | Photograph by Clarke and Hyde in 'The Illustrated London News', 3 April 1915, page 444 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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