Tomorrow it is November 11, so perhaps the right time to show a WW1 ID booklet and one of a victim of a gas attack, something which is associated with the ugliness of trench warfare.
Marcel Klein (°1889) from Denain was a gunner second class who initially served with the 15th Artillery Regiment at the outbreak of WW1, eventually he ended up with 110th Heavy Artillery Regiment.
Up until June 19 1918 he had survived without being injured but on this day his good fortune ended, he became the victim of poison gas, (mustard gas?) he survived it but his genitals were seriously burned.
He never fully recovered from these burns and was recognized as a war invalid.
His face wasn’t torn off by a piece of shrapnel, neither did he lose a limb but trying to pick up your life after the war as a young man with a damaged penis certainly also wouldn’t have been easy.
Marcel Klein (°1889) from Denain was a gunner second class who initially served with the 15th Artillery Regiment at the outbreak of WW1, eventually he ended up with 110th Heavy Artillery Regiment.
Up until June 19 1918 he had survived without being injured but on this day his good fortune ended, he became the victim of poison gas, (mustard gas?) he survived it but his genitals were seriously burned.
He never fully recovered from these burns and was recognized as a war invalid.
His face wasn’t torn off by a piece of shrapnel, neither did he lose a limb but trying to pick up your life after the war as a young man with a damaged penis certainly also wouldn’t have been easy.