Second Battle of Ypres

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John McRae of Canada volunteered to participate in the First World War in 1914 and was a trade physician who served as a travel surgeon of artillery troops. The following year he occupied the forefront of Ypres' second fight panic and the Germans launched an attack including the first use of toxic chlorine in the war. Taking care of the injured including his best friend and mourning the dead, Alexis Hermmer - McLeie wrote a poem at "Flanders Battleground". A poem written by a collapsed soldier. The grave is covered with wild flowers and poppies. "In the field of Flanders, Poppies are blowing," "Continuously during the Cross" is written. John McRae died of pneumonia and meningitis in 1918, but this poem is a previous literature on the most popular and widely cited works of the First World War. In addition, it encouraged people to use poppy as a "commemorative flower" for the death of war.

The second Ypres battle (April 22 to May 25, 1915) began in the warm spring afternoon and new weapons, ie poisonous gases, were tried in the Ypres area. After two attempts to release natural gas earlier this month, this was the cloud of chlorine released by the 4 th Army in Germany, then the infantry attack continued. In the two northern France suburbs of Ypres Salient, a breeze was blowing from the end of the clouds. German infantry behind the clouds moved fast, the frontline of the Allied forces broke, and the way to Ypres was held at the end of the day. The battle to regain lost land to defend Ypres includes more German gas clouds that attack allies

Ypres' second time hesitation from April 22 to May 25 was the first place in Germany's chlorine attack and in 1915 it became the only major attack in the West. After the battle was over, Ypres was hit hard. The second Artois fight from May 9th to June 18th is the most important part of the Allied Attack of 1915 and it succeeds for the German Army and can advance like the Allied forces plan It was. It is not a retreat, Artois will not reach the Allies until 1917. From September 25 to November 6, the second champagne battle was completely defeated, the French army could advance only 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) and could not occupy the second row of Germany . France has offered more than 140,000 victims and Germany has offered more than 80,000 victims.