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
Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 Day 2004. In 2007, during the commemoration of 90 years of the 'Third Battle of Ypres', the MMP1917 organised six thematic exhibitions who took place on different locations. There are also three trails created. In 2013 the restoration of the former vicarage is completed to be used as 'Kenniscentrum'. The main theme of the museum is the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele. This was a major battle in 1917 during the First World War which was fought out by the British, Anzac and Canadian troops and the German army. The total loss of human