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Description: | British officer served as chemical adviser with Special Gas Coy Royal Engineers, attached to Headquarters of 24th Div, VIII Corps and III Corps on Western Front, 1916-1918
REEL 1 Recollections of acting as chemical adviser with Royal Engineers attached to Headquarters 24th Division in Bailleul sector, Bethune area, 4/1916-5/1916: Major General J E Capper's desire to use gas in raid and problems in using gas in salient; plan to launch gas and smoke in area to be raided; makeshift instrument to check wind direction; launching gas and smoke; success of retaliatory raid, 5/1916; Capper's desire for raid to retaliate after successful German gas attack in Wulverghem sector, 30/4/1916; prior training of raiding party in use of gas and smoke; success of retaliatory raid, 5/1916; plans for retaliatory raid after successful German gas attack; problems in using gas in salient. Recollections of attachment to Headquarters VIII and III Corps, 1917-1918: transfer to defensive role after successful German gas attacks; secrecy to conceal effects of German introduction of Yellow Cross mustard gas in Ypres area, Belgium, 7/1917; subsequent German concentration on less effective Blue Cross gas; delays to III Corps advance caused by German shelling of gas shell dump, 1918; effects of mustard gas. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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