Hugo Stoltzenberg for the first time on the Western Front. The first gas attack occurred against Canadian soldiers and also against a force of mostly colonial soldiers from French Africa known as French colonial troops. The gas used was Chlorine gas. Mustard gas, also called Yperite from the name of this city, was also used for the first time near Ypres in the autumn of 1917. Prior to that, Stoltzenberg had injured his eye in an incident involving a chlorine gas cylinder which exploded and blinded him in the left eye. After the end of World War I, Stoltzenberg participated in clearing
Structure of the German Army but is supported by the units of the Joint Medical Service as needed. Structure of the German Army The following article lists German active and reserve units within the structure of the German Army . Reserve units do not possess any heavy equipment and their personnel is intended as replacements for losses sustained by regular units. As part of the Franco-German Brigade: As part of the Multinational Corps Northeast: Signals, Psychological Operations, Strategic Reconnaissance (incl. SIGINT), Geographic Information (incl. military satellites), and Electronic Warfare units of the German Armed Forces fall under the Cyber and Information Space Command (Kommando Cyber-