Snapshot · Empire: World History
The Battle of Loos was catastrophic for the British: approximately 60,000 men were killed in just four days, largely due to chlorine gas released by the Germans blowing back into British trenches.
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In 1914, on the eve of the war, Pauline found love with a young army officer, Second Lieutenant John Shirley Archibald Torrie of the Rifle Brigade [1] — Anita Anand "Pauline widowed at 27, Battle of Loos: Pauline Duleep Singh married army officer John Torrie in 1914 but was widowed just a year later when…" 28:06 . He was exactly the kind of upper-middle-class Englishman whose family would have read Country Life. A year later, he was dead — killed at the Battle of Loos, one of the most catastrophic engagements of the entire war. Anita explains that the battle's horror stemmed largely from Germany releasing chlorine gas from cylinders, only for the wind to blow it back into British trenches, killing approximately 60,000 men in four days. Pauline, married at 25, was a widow at 27. She never remarried — the depth of her feeling for Torrie visible only in its absence, in the fact that she would not try again.
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