THE WORLD FAMOUS HISTORY AND PAST EVENTS

Canadian soldier being treated for Mustard Gas injuries, 1917 - 1918. Today 106 years ago, on July 12, 1917, the German Army deployed Mustard Gas through shells on British forces at Ypres for the first time in the First World War. Since the German Army on the Western Front would spend the second half of 1916 and almost all of 1917 defensively against relentless Allied offensives, the Germans began the devoloment of a new gas designed as a defensive agent. Dichlorodiethyl sulfide (C4H8Cl2S) was the result, best known as Mustard Gas for its pale brown-yellow colour and distinct sweet and mustard-like odor. Though the substance wasn't actually a gas in itself, but tiny condensed liquid droplets, which evaporated in sunlight. Exposure to Mustard Gas caused blisters on skin, sore eyes which could lead to blindness, victims would vomit, suffer respiratory damage and suffer external and internal bleeding. Dying from Mustard Gas was an extremely painful process which could take several wee...

British pilot Henry Ralph Lumley following his facial operation, 1917 - 1918. Today 105 years ago, on March 11, 1918, British pilot Henry Ralph Lumley passed away following injuries sustained in a flight accident. His hospital case was important to the future development of facial reconstruction and plastic surgery. Henry Ralph Lumley was born on March 20, 1892 and worked at the Eastern Telegraph Company in London, before enlisting into the British Royal Flying Corps in December 1915. Lumley was admitted as an officer of the RFC in April 1916 and went to the Central Flying School in Oxford for pilot training. By July 1916 he had completed his flying training and passed the flying test. On July 14, 1916, while flying above Upavon in Wiltshire, Lumley had a flight accident in which his plane crashed, with Lumley suffering extremely severe injuries. His entire face was burned, losing his lips, eyebrows, most of his skin and his left eye and could barely see out of his right eye. Both his ...

Canadian soldier being treated for Mustard Gas injuries, 1917 - 1918. Today 106 years ago, on July 12, 1917, the German Army deployed Mustard Gas through shells on British forces at Ypres for the first time in the First World War. Since the German Army on the Western Front would spend the second half of 1916 and almost all of 1917 defensively against relentless Allied offensives, the Germans began the devoloment of a new gas designed as a defensive agent. Dichlorodiethyl sulfide (C4H8Cl2S) was the result, best known as Mustard Gas for its pale brown-yellow colour and distinct sweet and mustard-like odor. Though the substance wasn't actually a gas in itself, but tiny condensed liquid droplets, which evaporated in sunlight. Exposure to Mustard Gas caused blisters on skin, sore eyes which could lead to blindness, victims would vomit, suffer respiratory damage and suffer external and internal bleeding. Dying from Mustard Gas was an extremely painful process which could take several wee...