[WWI] 6th Marine Regt. (was: How did this damn spammer get in?)

[Jamie Gagnon]

 Hi Bill;


>I was always told he was gas'd in one of the battles,  and lived with some 
>lung damage the rest of his life.  It doesn't  mention that in his record 
>though.

A lot of troops who were gassed remained in the line. My grandfather told me 
about the first time the Canadians came under chlorine gas attack and how 
they urinated on rags and covered their faces with them to filter the gas 
out. He also said that the majority of the men who were exposed  continued 
to fight and I met several of his buddies who confirmed the story. At least 
with chlorine gas, a lot of the troops were able to continue, I doubt that 
anyone who got a lungful of  mustard gas would.

Grandpa Clark died in 1973 of throat cancer. Several months previously he 
told me that the Germans had finally done for him, but that it had taken two 
wars, a gas attack, multiple bullet wounds and blowing him through a brick 
wall as well to do the job. And then  it had taken 31 additional years from 
their last attempt for him to succumb.

Jamie