![]() haggard, their overcoats thrown off or opened wide, their scarves pulled off, running like madmen, directionless, shouting for water, spitting blood, some even rolling on the ground making desperate efforts to breathe. The French troops in the path of the gas cloud suffered 2,000–3,000 casualties, with 800 to 1,400 fatalities. On 22 April 1915 at about 5:00 p.m., the 4th Army released 171 t (168 long tons) of chlorine gas on a 6.5-kilometre (4.0 mi) front between the hamlets of Langemark and Gravenstafel on the Allied line held by French Territorial and Troupes coloniales (Moroccan and Algerian troops) of the French 45th and 87th divisions. In this area, the German trench system ran approximately from the farmhouse on the left to the group of willow trees on the right. Langemark-Poelkapelle: Photograph taken from a position just west of Langemark German war cemetery, facing approximately north, towards the former location of the German trench from which the first gas attack was launched on 22 April 1915. The First German Gas Attack at Ypres by William Roberts depicting the German gas attack on French and Canadian soldiers Julien: Saturday 24 April – 4 Mayīattle of Gravenstafel Ridge (22–23 April 1915)
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