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WWI - Operation with lethal gas

At the Battle of Ypres in April 1915, poison gas was used for the first time as a devastating weapon of war, contrary to the Hague Convention. Troops on both sides subsequently used chlorine gas, mustard gas and phosgene. Horrific injuries and numerous fatalities were the result.

World War I (1914-1918) - German air raid alert

28.10.2009 - French police officers with gas masks patrol the streets of Paris during a German air raid alert (World War I 1914-1918).
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gas projectors

13.02.2000 - German Pioneers laying gas projectors Great Britain / Mono Print
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WW1, Erster Weltkrieg/British troops,Salonika,1916

01.01.2000 - WW1, Erster Weltkrieg: The Balkans. British troops wearing gas masks in the trenches. Salonika front, 1916. Greece
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WW1, Erster Weltkrieg:Carrier pigeons

01.01.2000 - WW1, Erster Weltkrieg: Carrier pigeons being put in a gas chamber by soldiers. (Presumably gas ¿proof¿ chamber).
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WW1, Erster Weltkrieg: Battle of the Somme.

01.01.2000 - WW1, Erster Weltkrieg: Battle of the Somme. Machine gunners wearing their gas masks, near Ovillers, July 1916. France
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WW1, Erster Weltkrieg: Gunners wearing gas masks

01.01.2000 - WW1, Erster Weltkrieg: Gunners of the 55th Battery Royal Australian Garrison Artillery wearing gas masks. Voormezelle, 15th Sept. 1917. Allied troops.
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WW1, Erster Weltkrieg: Troops in trench

01.01.2000 - WW1, Erster Weltkrieg: Allied troops (possibly British) in a trench wearing gas masks and firing a machine gun.
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WW1, Erster Weltkrieg: Italian trenches

01.01.2000 - WW1, Erster Weltkrieg: Italy. Troops in trenches wearing gas masks. Italy
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WW1, Erster Weltkrieg:Italian troops, Podgora Hill

01.01.2000 - WW1, Erster Weltkrieg: Italian soldiers wearing gas masks in front line trenches, Podgora Hill. Italy
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WWI - Gas masks for horses

01.01.1914 - The contemporary colorized German propaganda photo shows German soldiers with gas masks on horses which are wearing feeding bags filled with wet hay as protection against gas attac...
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WWI - German machine anti-aircraft gun

01.01.1914 - The contemporary colorized German propaganda photo shows German soldiers with gas masks standing at a machine anti-aircraft gun (Flugabwehrmaschinengewehr, Fla-MG), date and locati...
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WW I - Gas Warfare 1916

01.01.1916 - From the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung in 1916, the caption reading: "Gas attack, photographed out of a Russian aircraft. Published in a British magazine." Photo: Fotoarchiv für Ze...
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Britische Soldaten des Ersten Weltkriegs tragen rudimentäre Gasmasken im...

06.04.2025 - Britische Soldaten des Ersten Weltkriegs tragen rudimentäre Gasmasken im Schützengraben auf dem Schlachtfeld als Schutz gegen deutsches Giftgas
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German soldiers practice taking on gas masks, 1918

01.01.1917 - Officers check privates, whether they wear the gas masks correctly. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Marine soldiers with gas masks, 1915

13.01.1916 - Soldiers of the Marine Infantry with gas masks in front of a barbed wire barricade in World War I. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Soldiers with gas masks, 1915

01.01.1914 - Soldiers of the Infantry Regiment 106 with gas masks in a trench at the Western Front during World War I. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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French soldier and dog with gas masks, 1917

01.01.1917 - A soldier of the French army with his dog at the Western Front in World War I. Both wear gas masks. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Gas warfare in the First World War, 1918

01.01.1914 - Austrian-Hungarian rescue team carries a gas poisoned comrade from a submerged tunnel. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Runner with a gas mask in the First World War

01.01.1914 - A liaison officer on the Western Front works its way through a terrain which is coated with craters. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German Soldiers in Flanders during a Gas Alert, 1916

09.02.1916 - Sailors at the front in Flanders wear masks during an exercise related to gas attacks. In some cases, the soldiers are already wearing special gas masks. However, even these gas ma...
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British gas tanks at the Western front, 1918

01.05.1918 - British gas tanks, that were left-behind in a trench. During a gas attack gas was blown out from them. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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World War I (1914-1918) - German air raid alert
German soldiers practice taking on gas masks, 1918
Runner with a gas mask in the First World War
gas projectors
Marine soldiers with gas masks, 1915
German Soldiers in Flanders during a Gas Alert, 1916
WWI - German machine anti-aircraft gun
French soldier and dog with gas masks, 1917
British gas tanks at the Western front, 1918

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