Police said the devices were discovered by people digging for bottles in the woods ... in Wiltshire. Mustard gas was used during World War One. It was outlawed by the Geneva Protocol of 1925.

Mustard gas, which a watchdog on Friday said the so-called Islamic State group may have manufactured and used in Syria and Iraq, first terrorised battlefields during World War I. The Organisation ...

On 30 June Winston Churchill wrote in a memo: “Supposing lodgements were effected on our coast, there could be no better points for application of mustard [gas] than these beaches and lodgements.” ...

A hundred years ago the German army became the first to use chemical weapons in World War One. Remnants can still ... inhaled a small amount of mustard gas. "I leaned the projectile against ...

The Rescue Board (Päästeamet) has neutralized corroded metal barrels discovered on Saaremaa several years ago and which were found to contain mustard gas dating back to World War One. The board's ...

As ships in the harbor sank, men threw themselves into water poisoned by the Harvey’s secret cargo: 2,000 mustard gas bombs. Sailors were drenched in liquid mustard gas, or sulfur mustard, which ...

World War I saw the advent of modern chemical warfare. Mustard gas crawling over the trenches caused debilitating injuries, while soldiers exposed to chlorine and phosgene gases suffocated in a ...

When officers led him and a dozen others into a wooden gas chamber and locked the door, he didn't complain. None of them did. Then, a mixture of mustard gas and a similar agent called lewisite was ...

Europe fell silent today to honour the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele, one of the bloodiest battles of World War One and the first in which mustard gas was used effectively as a weapon.

On June 2, 1918, during Germany’s spring offensive offensive on the Western Front, a French unit pulling back to more defensible ground encountered a newly arrived company of Marines marching ...