Allied victims of a poison gas, temporarily blinded, at a French hospital mb-code DCA_113656 359 Sebastian Coe

359 Sebastian Coe

Auto Union in the pits during a Grand Prix

24th November 1967

with figures promenading along it

Allied victims of a poison gas, temporarily blinded, at a French hospital mb-code DCA_113656 359 Sebastian CoeAllied victims of a poison gas, temporarily blinded, at a French hospital, World War I, c1915 c1918. On 22 April 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans released 168 tons of chlorine gas over a four mile front, in the first gas attack of the war. Initially French and Algerian troops (Zouaves) of the 45th and 78th Divisions were attacked with the gas, inflicting heavy casualties and causing widespread panic, with the survivors abandoning