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Description: | British private served with 2nd Bn Lancashire Fusiliers on Western Front, 1915
REEL 1 Recollections of German gas attack on 2nd Bn Lancashire Fusiliers in St Julian sector, Ypres area, Belgium, 2/5/1915: breakfast preparations; story of mistaking emergence of German gas cloud for detonation of lydite shells along German front line; gas alarm and officer's orders to open rapid fire; over-heating rifles and issue of rifle oil by Medical Officer Captain William Tyrell; urinating on handkerchiefs as makeshift gas mask; role of machine gunner Private John Lynn in stopping German attack, his subsequent death and posthumous award of VC; gas alarm and officer's orders to open rapid fire; urinating on handkerchiefs as makeshift gas mask; breakfast preparations; sticking head in latrine bucket as makeshift gas precaution; story of mistaking emergence of German gas cloud for detonation of lydite shells along German front line; gas alarm. | 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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