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Description: | British army officer seconded to Royal Engineers as chemical adviser and Assistant Director of Gas Services on Western Front, 1915-1918
REEL 1: Background in GB: studied chemistry at Oxford University; employed as chemist with chemical firm in Cheshire and at Wye Agricultural College; enlisted as private with East Kent Regt, 1914; commissioned and seconded to Royal Engineers, St Omer, France, 1915. Aspects of operations as officer with Royal Engineers on Western Front, 1915-1918: description of experiments with use of phosgene gas; transportation of gas shells by infantry into emplacement on parapet of trench; use of sand bags to protect shells; description of connecting and firing gas shells across No Man's Land; role in gas attacks in France and Belgium; use of smoke mixed gas to confuse Germans; development of lachrimatory agents; description of duties as chemical adviser with HQ 2nd Anzac Corps and HQ 3rd Army; promoted to Assistant Director of Gas Services at GHQ; story of being awarded Croix de Guerre with Palm; problem of wind direction when releasing gas; comparison of effects of mustard, chlorine and phosgene gas; comparison of conditions on Somme and Ypres fronts; story of visiting Delville Wood. Post-war visit to Ypres. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Edwardes-Ker, Douglas | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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