The gas could affect someone in just a few minutes so protective masks were given to all soldiers. Many soldiers suffered from the effects of gas attacks for the rest of their lives. The poet ...

One of the strangest presents we've ever been given was a World War I gas mask, in its original cylindrical canister, presented to us in 1990 for our 10th (tin) wedding anniversary. I wondered ...

On April 22 1915, a greenish fog drifted over the battlefield north of Ypres in Belgium, choking to death some 5,000 French soldiers and ... the stupidity of war “Gas masks and their grotesque ...