British use of banned weapons ?

The British developed bombs that would spread anthrax spores (tested it on sheep on some remote Scotish island) which was to be used as retaliation for any gas attack on UK soil. This threat to retaliate in kind may well have been made for all i know, but it was deffnitly official policy for a while.

As for flame throwers, i doubt it. The British had their own 'Ack pack' flame throwers, but tended to prefer flame throwers mounted on tanks. Using bio/chemical weapons as retaliation for a weapon used my most armed forces during that war, and furthermore, in a context that would put their own troops at risk to exposure to such weapons, just makes no sense.
It was WWII, not WWI, the peeps in charge of the British armed forces actualy used their brains this time round.

I've never heard of this claim, and i personaly think its BS.
There is also a claim that German SS troops would execute the crew of British flame thrower tanks as soon as they were caught, again due to anger of flamethrowers being used against their troops, but i've not seen much to convince me that this claim is true either.

Originally posted by pekau Originally posted by nuvolari I have read the the British government in WW2 were so concerned that the Germans might use flamethrowers against their troops that they threatened to retaliate by using dubious or banned weapons such as poison gas/chemical/biological weapons. Has anybody else heard that and can quote a reliable source as to this threat having been made ? Cheers, Nuvolari.   Doubt it. In WW2, both sides used anything they could find against their enemies. Such British threat is meaningless.

I never heard of threats of retaliations by the UK with gas in case of invasion. But one thing for sure the Brits had developed a kid of flame thrower on their beaches. And the German were scared to death to be baked alive.

IIRC, their was a time (outside Moscow) when the German's did want to use poison gas, but Hitler absolutly forbade it.