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Gas attack seen from an aeroplaneVintage Photographs - Poison Gas and Flamethrowers
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war.  Specifically this sub-section contains photography of poison gas and flamethrower attacks.

Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources.  Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.

The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.

A cloud of liquid fire, as used on the battlefront (CPE)

Gas attack seen from an aeroplane (CNP)

Liquid fire apparatus (CNP)

American soldier wearing his gas mask (CNP)

Liquid fire attack at night (CNP) Bursting of a gas bomb at Hartmannsweilerkopf, Alsace (CNP)
German soldiers fleeing from a cloud of their own gas (CNP) New French gas masks tested by a volunteer squad (CPE)
Effects of gases used in war (CPE) Americans in France being taught use of liquid fire (CPE)
102nd U.S. Engineers putting on gas masks after gas shell explosion (CPE) U.S. Marines wearing gas masks in France (WW)
Gas attack gong being sounded (WW) U.S. troops displaying captured German hats, guns and gas masks (WW)
British driver and horse wearing gas masks (WW) Liquid fire demonstration by the British for Queen Mary (WW)
French gas attack upon German lines (WW) French soldier wearing a respirator (NW)
German flamethrowers (NW) Soldiers digging trenches while protected against gas attacks (NW)
Aerial photo of a German gas attack on the Eastern Front (HW) An Austrian attack using flamethrowers (GW)
Belgian troops protected against gas attacks (GW) A Highlander and his gas mask (GW)
British machine gun section wearing anti-gas masks (GW) German flamethrower as used at Hooge, 30 July 1915 (GW)
French soldiers wearing gas masks on the Western Front (GW) German Red Cross man wearing a gas mask with oxygen apparatus (GW)
View of a gas attack on German trenches on the Eastern Front (GW) British respirator parade and inspection (GWS)
Belgian machine-gunners wearing gas respirators (GWS) 1915 German photo of protective mask against British gas attacks (GWS)
French soldiers wearing gas mask protection (GWS) German gas bombs bursting (GWS)
German troops firing through a cloud of gas (GWS) Russian soldiers tortured by poison gas at a Russian field hospital (GWS)
Russian nurses offering drinks to poison gas victims (GWS) French artillerymen wearing gas masks (GWS)
French soldiers operating a capture German flamethrower (GWS) French soldiers operating a capture German flamethrower (GWS)
French anti-gas masks (GWS) French soldiers wearing anti-gas masks awaiting an attack (GWS)
A Highlander wearing a gas mask (GWS) Rescue-brigade man at Woolwich Arsenal replete with gas mask (GWS)
Anti-poison gas mask (GWS) Army man examining a man on his return from a test poison gas chamber (GWS)
French school of experimental anti-gas warfare (GWS)  

'Push' was slang signifying a large-scale attack upon enemy positions.

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