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7 a G AT WA A ro ke medtes so Atn r ore ea last re ed th Treches btwa er neh he ras esn stcped faling We ccapted Tr ard d te enrenans were abscat 100 metres to hom e rte attacks was no Ionger a war of boms he arllery wass e real t7sreat Thhe sector, for the mo ent er TFe tempeature was totally freezing, the rain had sto at m Hre coVered from head to foot That evening se on as noE on duty Whe night fell, we divided tnto ten The aster Front 19S espn was decteted to use release of cloet gan tee e A e possite. Irsstead, a four day preliminary bomEardment to grind down lve Ce man defernces WOuld precede the release cst as and he ntantry aNsault acrossNo Man's Land. SOOY preparations were underway for the Trag atout mmetres deep undermeath the parapet. We were o to hall ost the water that flooded our sheIters, to a depth of abou E netres: water seepinIg down the chalk walls. We used a canvaas nket ad madea chain, passing it back to throw the water behing I N t otagt et t e stro aly foetihed tierrman Feeneh es In r the 8tping chasm between ambiton and reality There couid Aurticaxe omsbardment as at Neuve Chapvelle that was simply the parapet After halt an hour of this toil, we wraPped ourse On the 19th the gas cylinders were brought up: no VOcabulary could Oxpress the men's thoughts of those cylinders as they struggled and sweated up the narrow trenches, festooned withh detached telephone wires that gripped sometimes the throat, sometimes the feet. Thne men Cur Noaking wet blankets, heads resting against the walls-luekly thelmets protected us from2 SOme of the damp. We tried to get some seep t the cold made it impossible. Moreover, the water seeped In and soorn tonced us to repeat the operation. A few shells bursting from were then instructed in the method of WOrking the gasS cylinders,In was ready. The cylinders were all in position. The long time to time remiding us of the reality of our position.23 Corporal Hewi Laporte, 2nd Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment S attack The French had fired nearly S million shells in pursuit of the elusive break Sives totalling a vast 191,795. Yet all for nothing, when confronted with double, rectangular nozzles that were to discharge the gas clear of the parapet were ready to be joined up. With the approac of Zero HOur on the 25th September we were ready. The nozzles had been screwed on to the cylinders, and we were standing by in our gas masks. At 5.30 am the gas was released. On the front of our division the wind was iin the right what tO do in case they became casualties, or in the case of a direct hit on one of the cylinders both prior to and during that atttack. By the throngh, nith their combined losses in the Artois and Champagne offen 20th everything the vastly improved German defence works and tactics. the gas went over well. When the over with duckboards, and the infantry, wearing their as cylinders were exhausted, a smoke screen was put down, the trenches direction and the right strength masks, went over at 6.30 am.25 Lieutenant H. G. Picton Davies, 4th Royal Welsh Fusiliers The Battle of Loos Aspart of the French autumn offensive, the British were a full-scale attack on the widest possible front at Loos on 25 September bridged were British infantry, wearing their 'P' gas helmets to protect them from good deal of attempted variety of excuses, but Sir John Fren wn gas, were generally inexperienced and their accounts of going member having difficulty in breathing and was stumbling along. launch a 1915. The late summer months had featured a certain casualness borne of naivety. was kept to the mark by the obdurate Joffre, who was resolute tha backsliding by the British, using a top often betray BEF would attack alongside the Tenth Army in the Artois. Yet 1 plentiful causes for concern. The attack would b few minutes of this I thought I would sniff the air, it didn't seem me so I took my helmet off. I thought I was completely alone d but then I started to stumble on wounded men

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