Last month was the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Luz.

Luz was an important turning point in the British Army's experience on the Western Front, its first big battle,

its first big push, and the first time on that Western Front, the Kitchener's Army,

men from the new Army, had been used in a major offensive. Luz changed the British approach,

really, to battles on the Western Front in the way they were fought with the resources that were available.

This was a battle in which men, manpower, wasn't a problem.

Artillery was no longer a problem.

That was something that had dogged British offensives in the earlier

phase of 1915 and a turning point with new weapons in that Luz was the first occasion

in which poison gas was used by the British army. So it was important that last month's

podcast supporters evening on that 110th anniversary that we marked it somehow.

A professor, Peter Doyle, historian, geologist, author and great friend to this podcast

who's appeared on it on many occasions, very kindly came along to deliver a talk about that very battle.

So here we'll share Peter's talk tomorrow on the old front line YouTube channel.

The video of the talk will go live and you'll be able to watch it there as well if you want to

and do check out Peter's book and I'll put details of that in the show notes.

Right, so what I'm going to do is talk to you about the British use of gas in 1915 and really

whether it's expectation was greater than reality reality so clearly there's a lot of

faith placed in this so this is taken from the phrase is taken from one of those popular magazines

of the period and you can see repaying the Germans with their own coin so the things I'm going

to address not necessarily in this order not necessarily with So the things I'm going to address,

not necessarily in this order,

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