Their clothing, hands and faces were stained yellow from the lyddite fumes. |
Back to the British trenches also wafted the sickly fumes of lyddite and cresolite. |
The divers were able to confirm that the shell, packed with lyddite explosive, was fired either by HMS Swiftsure or HMS Triumph on exercise in the run-up to the Great War. |
Benzole cascaded through the torn plating on to the lyddite below, just as the Imro reversed propellor and pulled its bow clear in a shower of sparks. |
A few of Buller's lyddite shells were bursting near him, and one shell was seen to strike his magazine and explode it. |
Here a corner of one of the massive entrance pillars had been sharply severed off by a British lyddite shell. |