Contents Page for Prelude to the Second Battle of Ypres

  1. Summary of the Prelude: January 1915 to 17.00 hours, 22 April 1015
  2. New German weapon
  3. Trial of the gas weapon
  4. German attack plan
  5. Resistance to gas
  6. Trials postponed
  7. New area prepared
  8. Cylinders discovered
  9. Allied reliefs
  10. German operation orders
  11. Haig's diary
  12. British press warning
  13. Poincaré visits
  14. Trial to take place
  15. Gas cylinders installed
  16. German aims
  17. German deserter
  18. French interrogate deserter
  19. King of Württemberg visits
  20. Revised German operation orders
  21. Germans Stand To: 1
  22. British reaction
  23. French dismiss warning
  24. German mouth protectors
  25. Hill 60 attack
  26. German revenge
  27. Justification
  28. 1st Canadian Division arrives
  29. Defence Conditions
  30. Garros shot down
  31. Germans Stand To: 2
  32. Big Bertha bombards Ypres
  33. Life in Ypres
  34. Civilian casualties
  35. Ypres evacuated
  36. Pressure to attack
  37. Germans Stand To: 3
  38. German Order of Battle
  39. French Order of Battle
  40. British Order of Battle
  41. Germans wait
  42. Allied activity
  43. Wind favourable