Great War Britain Oxfordshire by Jane Cotter

Author:Jane Cotter
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750957649
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

It was at Loos that the British Army deployed the use of poison gas for the first time, with unfortunate results. Colonel Eden, Commanding Officer of the 5th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, wrote in his diary:

25 September. Very early in the morning we were told that zero hour was fixed for 6 a.m. and that, for 10 minutes previous to that, gas (officially called Accessory Cylinders) and smoke would be discharged from our front trenches. The 5th Brigade was to attack half an hour earlier than the attacks southwards. In this neighbourhood, at the above hour, the air was practically motionless, with the result that the gas hung very considerably, and in our part of the line did more harm to our men than to the enemy who, in only very few cases, were found to have suffered from the effects.

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