Arts: All go on the Western Front The First World War will soon disappear from living memory. On a visit to Ypres, ROBERT HANKS asks whether museums should be updating their exhibitions for the PlayStation generation

The Independent - London | April 22, 2002| | Copyright

Eighty-seven years ago today, on the afternoon of Thursday 22 April 1915, at about 5pm, soldiers of the Allied armies entrenched in the salient north of Ypres saw a yellow-grey fog drifting toward them from the German lines: it was the first use of poison gas in the First World War. Panic broke out and swiftly spread through the lines; men fled in terror, abandoning trenches and guns, as gas- masked German troops marched onward. Over the next five weeks of furious fighting, 60,000 Allied troops were killed or wounded or went missing; this was later referred to as the Second Battle of Ypres.

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