Travel: Lasting legacy of Ypres; IAIN MAYHEW visits the scene of WWIgas attack that sickened the world.(Review) From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: November 9, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 MGN LTD. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: IAIN MAYHEW

FROM his observation post on a ridge in front of the village of Poelcappelle, Signaller-Gunner Jim Sutton swept the German lines through his binoculars, looking for any movement.

The afternoon of April 22, 1915, had been a comparatively uneventful one on the Ypres Salient in Flanders. A few desultory German shells had landed in Ypres, a once-attractive market town which had already lost two of the spires from its famous Cloth Hall and would...

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