A war to end all wars' The First World War was ... At Ypres in Belgium gas is used for the first time on a large scale. Germany unleashes thousands of canisters of chlorine gas, causing over ...

Islamic State fanatics returning to Britain could be plotting horrifying attacks using chlorine gas which killed thousands of troops during the First World War. The warning has been given by one ...

By the end of World War One, it is thought that 1.1 million men died fighting for ... Four thousand British soldiers were killed by mustard gas. Chlorine gas had a pepper like smell and caused ...

The first world war saw the first widespread combat ... tragedy and loyalty Overall an estimated 90,000 people were killed by gas attacks, and a further 1.2 million injured, sometimes when the ...

Canadian soldiers were among the first to witness the horrors of modern warfare as "the war to end all wars" exploded onto the world stage ... cloud - poisonous chlorine gas - rose from the ...

A renovation of a townhome in Tielt, Belgium, led to the discovery of a secret tunnel system under the historic structures. The townhome complex was commandeered by the Germans during World War I and ...