It will be seen, by studying the map, that the whole of the eastern face of Hébuterne was protected by two lines of defences, outer and inner.
Next day, after a month's continuous residence in Hébuterne or the trenches, we were relieved by the 144th Brigade.
And in spite of the hard work time was found for recreation; cricket was played again for the first time since the summer days at Hébuterne in 1915, and a Brigade Horse Show created keen interest.
For several consecutive days in February, Hébuterne received a ration of several thousand shells, and cases of shell shock made their appearance.
Hébuterne for an extra 250 men added to the general discomfort.
Before returning to the line the battalion spent a few days at Sailly and Couin, furnishing working parties for Hébuterne each night and day.
All rations and supplies had to be brought up from Hébuterne by communication trenches more than a mile long and in bad repair.
Amidst such an atmosphere of uncertainty we relieved the 4th Gloucesters at Hébuterne on September 17th, making the passage from Sailly over the brow of the hill for the first time by the congested Boyau Larrey.
Reliefs from the Brigade worked day and night without a pause in Hébuterne and the adjacent trenches.
The aspect of the country with its tangled growth of grass and weeds revived memories of Hébuterne two summers ago.
On the extreme right, and just beyond our boundary, was Buterne Avenue, a deep traversed trench over which we had a right of way.
However, it turned out a wet night and as black as pitch, and the relief was completed viâ Buterne Avenue at 12.
B" Company began to thread its way down Buterne Avenue towards the town.
The route chosen was Buterne Avenue, the common communication trench between ourselves and the right battalion.
The enemy's activity, both in artillery and trench mortar fire, became rather more marked, and Hébuterne itself attracted more attention than had been the case prior to the battle.
Two days were occupied here in resting and reorganising, and advantage was taken by all ranks during leisure hours of the opportunity to revisit the Battalion's old haunts at Hébuterne and to cross unmolested to Gommecourt Park.
The German artillery continued to shell Hébuterne and the Orchard, near Cross Street, a good deal, while his constant machine-gun fire at night interfered seriously with our work of wiring in front of W 48.
The remaining companies were also set to work on the 14th in Hébuterne on parts of the Brigade scheme, working hours being nightly from 9 p.
From this point they continued in a generally northerly direction, passing through Beaumont Hamel, west of Serre and between Hébuterne and Gommecourt.
During the progress of the relief Hébuterne was intermittently shelled and a direct hit was scored on Battalion Headquarters, though fortunately without inflicting casualties.
July the 168th Brigade embussed for the Le Cauroy area, in which it had trained a year previously prior to occupying the Hébuterne trenches.
On the 22nd the detachments in Hébuterne were relieved by C Company, who took over their tasks.
The 30th June opened with a heavy barrage on W sector and Hébuterne at about midnight, but this subsided after a few minutes and little further activity was displayed by the enemy during the early morning hours.
It is hidden from him by the tilt of the high-lying chalk plateau, and by the woodland and orchards round Hébuterne village.
Turning to the left up Woman Street, and leaving the belt of trees behind, we wound into the slightly undulating ground between Hébuterne and Gommecourt Wood.
The last scene that I saw in Hébuterne was that of three men dressing a tall badly wounded Prussian officer lying on the side of the road.
Gommecourt and Hébuterne were of the larger kind of village.
Immediately to the south of the Serre road, the ground rises into one of the many big chalk spurs, which thrust from the main Hébuterne plateau towards the Ancre Valley.
Hébuterne stands on a plateau-top; to the east of it there is a gentle dip down to a shallow hollow or valley; to the east of this again there is a gentle rise to higher ground, on which the village of Gommecourt stood.
Looking north from our position at Hébuterne there is the snout of the woodland salient; looking south there is the green shallow shelving hollow or valley which made the No Man's Land for rather more than a mile.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buterne" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
