Ypres east of the town. The first gas attack occurred against Canadian, British, and French soldiers, including both metropolitan French soldiers as well as Senegalese and Algerian tirailleurs (light infantry) from French Africa. The gas used was chlorine. Mustard gas, also called Yperite from the name of this town, was also used for the first time near Ypres, in the autumn of 1917. Of the battles, the largest, best-known, and most costly in human suffering was the Third Battle of Ypres (31 July to 6 November 1917, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele), in which the British, Canadian, ANZAC, and
Structure of the German Army 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- und Informationsraum) of the Bundeswehr. Therefore, the German Army does not have its