"War's Woes Told By Canton Youth Lieutenant Was "Gassed" in Rushing Shells to Front Line."
Plain Dealer
25 Nov. 1917: 7. NewsBank. Web.
19 May 2016.
A Canton man nicknamed "Bob" was gassed by Germans as he was rushing ammunition to the French front line in the war.
During World War 1 chemical weapons first saw real use especially in the form of gas weapons. Among these gases was chlorine gas. A Canton man, Robert MacKenzie joined the war a month before America did by joining the French troops, and came face to face with said gas. During a return trip from a trench supply drop his truck was under fire and he was forced into driving through gas bombs in "No Man's Land", the land in between the opposing trenches. The Boches, or Germans, used chlorine gas in such high concentrations that it was fatal within minutes. It would react to your lungs' membranes and create hydrochloric acid all throughout your airways. Lieutenant MacKenzie managed to survive, bringing home the gas mask that saved his life. Before the invention of the gas mask chlorine gas had taken the lives of hundreds during the war.
During World War 1 chemical weapons first saw real use especially in the form of gas weapons. Among these gases was chlorine gas. A Canton man, Robert MacKenzie joined the war a month before America did by joining the French troops, and came face to face with said gas. During a return trip from a trench supply drop his truck was under fire and he was forced into driving through gas bombs in "No Man's Land", the land in between the opposing trenches. The Boches, or Germans, used chlorine gas in such high concentrations that it was fatal within minutes. It would react to your lungs' membranes and create hydrochloric acid all throughout your airways. Lieutenant MacKenzie managed to survive, bringing home the gas mask that saved his life. Before the invention of the gas mask chlorine gas had taken the lives of hundreds during the war.
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