Gas Masks at the Imperial War Museum
Thursday 18th
January 1917
1st Battalion,
Bedfordshire Regiment is in the front line at Cuinchy, east of Béthune. This
afternoon the Germans, for reasons unknown, perhaps just for something to do,
shelled the artillery battery supporting the Bedfords. The adjutant said he
estimated about five hundred shells went over their heads. It turned out these
shells were filled with lachrymatory, or tear, gas as the gas blew back onto
the Bedfords causing copious eye irritations but, fortunately, no further
casualties.
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