Vintage Photographs - Poison Gas and Flamethrowers
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.
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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) |
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'Push' was slang signifying a large-scale attack upon enemy positions.
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