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Samuel James Manson Auld
1882–1963
A Scottish chemist, teacher, and soldier, he wrote vividly about two of the First World War’s most feared weapons: poison gas and flame. His work brings scientific training and frontline experience together in a way that still feels immediate.
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Gas and flame in modern warfare
by Samuel James Manson Auld
About the author
Born in Kilmarnock in 1882, Samuel James Manson Auld was a Scottish chemist whose career moved between the laboratory, the classroom, and military service. Bibliographic and authority records connect him with scientific study in Germany and with practical teaching in chemistry before the First World War.
Auld is best known as the author of Gas and Flame in Modern Warfare (1918), a book shaped by wartime knowledge and written to explain the new realities of chemical warfare. Other records also identify him as the co-author of Practical Agricultural Chemistry, showing the more academic side of his work and his interest in applied science.
Some sources differ on whether he was born in 1882 or 1884, so the exact year is not fully consistent across the records available here. He died in 1963. No suitable verified portrait image was confirmed from the sources I checked, so no profile image is included.