Publication Date: 2015-07-15
From the BBC archives, soldiers recount their experiences of poison gas attacks on the Western Front during World War One. Poison gas was first used as a weapon in 1915. By the end of the war, gas had killed 90,000 soldiers and affected one million. (Photo: Gas casualties of the British Army 55th Division on the Western Front, dated 10 April 1918. Credit: Lightroom Photos/TopFoto)

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