World War I in 100 Objects by Peter Doyle

Author:Peter Doyle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

The British at Loos in 1915, wearing gas hoods.

At Loos, British soldiers wore both Hypo and P helmets, and were supposed to carry a spare. These nightmarish creations would be famously recorded as the “goggle-eyed bugger with the tit” by Captain Robert Graves of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The gas was to be dispensed from cylinders fitted with flexible pipes that connected to the business end of the affair, a 1/2in iron pipe up to 10ft long, and which was fitted with a jet at its end:

Zero hour arrived at last at 5.50 am, and with a redoubled artillery bombardment the gas and smoke were released all along the front. . . . The gas cloud was rolling steadily over towards the German lines. . . . Apart from the artillery drum-fire and the clouds of gas and smoke from eleven thousand candles, twenty-five thousand phosphorous hand-grenades were spurting out dense white fumes.

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