Unidentified photographer
1915, 22 April
First major gas attack by the Germans against the Allies at Ypres, Belgium.

Gelatin silver print
6 7/8 x 9 1/4 ins (17.5 x 23.5 cm) (image)
 
Swann Galleries - New York
Fine Photographs, 23 February 2023, Lot: 45
 
On April 22, 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. Their attack featured a weapon that had not been used before on the Western Front--poison gas--and it devastated the Allied line.
 
LL/125690