The Battle of Ypres, April 1915

It came in the year 1915 when the "New Born" Canadian Army was moved from what was their somewhat silent sector on the Western Front to the apparent space in the line in front of the town of Ypres, Belgium. On the right of the Canadians would be two British Divisions, and on the left would be a French division comprised of Algerian colonialists.
It would be here, at Ypres on April 22, 1915 that the German Army would introduce crude and chaotic torture in the form of a yellow cloud, known as chlorine gas. The Germans had decided that they needed a break in the line, and this was the plac…