Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I (Modern War Studies)
by Donald C. Richter
Category: History

They were sometimes the butt of jokes, the comical chemical corporals. Officially they were the British Special Brigade, sent to retaliate against German chemical warfare, selected, as one of their members said, almost willy-nilly. They wanted chemists, a young recruit later recalled, ...so I looked up the formula for water and told them it was H2O and I was in.