Mustard gas. [WWI]

>And in sufficient concentration mustard [**gas**] was indeed a killer. Sergeant Charles Arnold of the Border Regiment was in a dugout at Ypres when a gas shell burst squarely inside: >>The men on my right and left were killed along with 15 others. I had got a slight hit in the head and was gassed. It was the time the Germans first started to use mustard gas. I had not been in the ambulance long before I was blind. The gas took all the skin off me and all my hair as well. _______________________________ **Source:** Holmes, Richard. "Steel and Fire." *Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918*. London: HarperCollins, 2004. 423-24. Print. **Original Source Listed:** Charles Arnold *From Mons to Messines and Beyond* (London 1985) p. 51. ______________________________ **Further Reading:** [Sulfur Mustard / Mustard Gas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_mustard) [Border Regiment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Regiment) [Second Battle of Ypres](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Ypres)