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Apr 27, 2016 · BBC NI. A thick, cloudy, lethal gas crept across the murky, moon-like landscape. This was no man's land. It was 27 April 1916, close to the village of Hulluch in northern France. A slow moving gas ...
Apr 15, 2016 · Here, during Easter Week 1916, more Irishmen were slaughtered than died in the Easter Rising. Four hundred and eighty-eight died during the rebellion at home. Five hundred and thirty-two died here ...
- Ronan Mcgreevy
An overview of the war to date, with particular regard to Irish service and Irish losses, both on land, in the air and at sea. 11:10 11:40 30 Mr Ronan McGreevy “In every conceivable posture of human agony” – the story of the Easter week 1916 gas attacks at Hulluch. Where, how and why did the Hulluch gas attacks take place? What happened
The Gas Attacks at Hulluch were two German cloud gas attacks on British troops during World War I, from 27 to 29 April 1916, near the village of Hulluch, 1 mi (1.6 km) north of Loos in northern France. The gas attacks were part of an engagement between divisions of the II Royal Bavarian Corps and divisions of the British I Corps.
Mon May 02 2016 - 01:08. The village of Hulluch in northern France has unveiled a plaque which remembers the 532 Irishmen who died there during Easter Week in 1916. The men from the 16th (Irish ...
Apr 14, 2016 · Heavy uproar in Ireland. The author’s spelling, alas, did not match his calligraphy. Suggesting that grammar is the joint-first casualty of war, the notice famously continued: “English guns ...
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the Irish Brigades of the 16th (Irish) Division suffered horribly in a gas attack launched by the Germans on 27 April 1916 at Hulluch.1 Like the men from the 2nd Dublins back in May 1915, many died years later as a result of this attack. On 29 April the Germans launched another gas attack on the Irish lines, however on this occasion the wind
