Title

Allied victims of a poison gas, temporarily blinded, at a French hospital, World War I, c1915-c1918. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Allied victims of a poison gas, temporarily blinded, at a French hospital, World War I, c1915-c1918. On 22 April 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans released 168 tons of chlorine gas over a four mile front, in the first gas attack of the war. Initially French and Algerian troops (Zouaves) of the 45th and 78th Divisions were attacked with the gas, inflicting heavy casualties and causing widespread panic, with the survivors abandoning their positions. Although the Allies initially condemned the attack as barbaric, by the end of the war both sides had made extensive use of poison gas.
Historica Graphica Collection

Date

1864

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historica Graphica Collection

Reference

HRM19D78_279

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

40,0Mb (2,2Mb) / 10,5in x 14,8in / 3149 x 4441 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male man men hospital medicine country French France science guy gas war front location century victim casualty soldiers soldier wound blind first world war concept bandage bandages blindfolded B&W blindfold blinded MONOCHROME wounded Army warfare chemical warfare World War I WWI infantry battlefield black & white black and white B W Military personnel World War One 1910s 20th century chemical weapon 1st World War gas attack trench warfare Western Front WW1 photograph Unknown Historica Graphica Collection poison gas photograph