X is for Xenyl Chloride
(A poisonous gas)

Gas was used, as well as bullets and bombs. It was a nasty weapon which killed many ANZACs and left others very sick. Some ANZACs were so sick, that 60 years after being gassed, they were still in hospital. Imagine spending your entire life in a hospital.

(Above) Gassed Australian soldiers lying out in the open near a casualty aid post. Villers-Bretonneux, France. (AWM E04851)

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