op 30 04 20/WWI chemical weapons

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  • During the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans released more than 160 tonnes of chlorine gas at the front, in the first deadly gas attack of the war. Getty Images
    During the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans released more than 160 tonnes of chlorine gas at the front, in the first deadly gas attack of the war. Getty Images
  • German Red Cross members treat victims of a gas attack during the First World War. AP Photo
    German Red Cross members treat victims of a gas attack during the First World War. AP Photo
  • German soldiers after a gas attack during the First World War. Getty Images
    German soldiers after a gas attack during the First World War. Getty Images
  • In the Second World War, they had gas masks to guard against noxious fumes.
    In the Second World War, they had gas masks to guard against noxious fumes.
  • Museum staff look over an officer's glove shrunk by poison gas at the First World War Galleries exhibit at the Imperial War Museum in London. EPA
    Museum staff look over an officer's glove shrunk by poison gas at the First World War Galleries exhibit at the Imperial War Museum in London. EPA
  • Kaylene Biggs, great-granddaughter Australian soldier Andrew Bayne, places a wooden cross with a poppy and a message on the grave at Westhof Farm Commonwealth Cemetery in Nieuwkerke, Belgium. AP Photo
    Kaylene Biggs, great-granddaughter Australian soldier Andrew Bayne, places a wooden cross with a poppy and a message on the grave at Westhof Farm Commonwealth Cemetery in Nieuwkerke, Belgium. AP Photo