The boyau (communication trench) began to turn and wind about in the most perplexing manner, and we entered a veritable labyrinth.
The front extended from Boyau 1 to Boyau 53, that is from Mad Point to just south of Givenchy.
Two hours occupied in laying out the boyau with a cord and getting the whole force at work.
Therefore ration and hot food parties had to go four times a day along a communication trench called Boyau Maison Rouge, one and a half miles long, and which was not duckboarded.
Many of the men will never forget the innumerable times they trudged heavily laden with a dixie of tea or stew through the mud in the tortuous communication trenches Boyau Eck, Sape 7, and the Boyau des Mitrailleuses.
As well might they doubt the necessity of the application of the boyau to an ovule, (or the existence of the boyau itself,) because the derivation of the embryo cannot be proved.
The details mentioned above will proceed via trenches, leaving same at junction of Tipperary trench and Rams Horn boyau in the following order: Co.
D: Detail will clear junction Rams Horn boyau and Tipperary trench at 5.
Illustration: Plate #19] Every boyau should be marked where it meets a trench with a sign indicating the place and trench.
A: Detail will clear junction Tremont trench, and Rams Horn boyau at 5.
C: Detail will clear junction Tremont trench and Slum boyau at 5.
The boyau leading to the post should be zig-zagged.
Bombing stations are placed near by to protect the guns and to clear the boyau of the enemy.
B: Detail will clear junction Tremont trench, and Poire boyau at 5.
Straight ahead I saw a boyau leading to their second lines, and as I ran into this with my squad, we came on a German at the turn.
In one place the boyauran down a steep slope, badly exposed, and Jean said, "Follow me on the run!
An officer wants a new boyau dug--you never heard such grumbling and groaning and kicking.
As word had just come from the trenches that a wounded man was on the way in, I got my helmet and we strolled down the boyau to meet the stretcher-bearers.
Sykes) two platoons in W 50 and two platoons in theBoyau de Service, north and south of Bucquoy Road.
Moore) two platoons in front line trench and two platoons in Boyau de Service, Sector W 49, between Whisky Street and Woman Street.
On the right (upper): +Advance boyau on the coast, near the Grande Dune.
Traffic became more and more congested by the stream of wounded which was now pouring down Central Boyau and "Barts Alley," and by carrying parties and supports endeavouring to get along the Reserve Trench up to the Redoubt.
At last he reached Boyau 94, and turned up towards the firing-line.
With a feeling rather as if he personally had won the war, our hero slipped backwards into the boyau beside him, and went in search of Shorty Bill.
The trenches retained the names left them by the French: Boyau Zivy, Boyau Bentata, etc.
Our first dugout was in a communication-trench called the Boyau Bentata, and about twenty yards from the junction of this trench with the firing-trench, here called the Doublemont Trench.
Brilliant repulse of strong enemy raid near Boyau 70 by 1st The Buffs and 1st K.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boyau" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
