Allied victims of a poison gas, temporarily blinded, at a French hospital Size:M: 60 x 45cm Traffic is in the foreground

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Allied victims of a poison gas, temporarily blinded, at a French hospital Size:M: 60 x 45cm Traffic is in the foregroundAllied victims of a poison gas, temporarily blinded, at a French hospital, World War I, c1915 c1918. On 22 April 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans released 168 tons of chlorine gas over a four mile front, in the first gas attack of the war. Initially French and Algerian troops (Zouaves) of the 45th and 78th Divisions were attacked with the gas, inflicting heavy casualties and causing widespread panic, with the survivors abandoning