Two companies of the Pioneers were sent up to dig a communication trench across, which would have permitted the sending up of bombs and water.
On a casualty occurring the wounded man was brought by the regimental stretcher-bearers to the Regimental Aid Post, a dug-out or shelter near a communication trench, generally in the neighbourhood of battalion headquarters.
There, where the "communication trench" runs in, stands a tall and elegant woman in the extreme of evening dress.
Fifty yards along the main trench was a communication trench reaching to the hedge, where it stopped, letting us out on the other side.
On telling him, he replied that he was a Royal Engineer digging a communication trench; we were not sorry to hear that he was not one of the enemy.
Meanwhile the tanks had not shown up, though one of them later on, after nearly smashing up Battalion Headquarters, got stuck in a communication trench, and materially interfered with the removal of the wounded.
Of the many trying journeys of an infantry battalion, none is worse than the “hesitation march” along a communication trench.
The shell-swept stretch of road was growing uncomfortably dangerous, and it was with a good deal of relief that the Stonewalls saw their leading platoon turn aside and disappear into the entrance of a communication trench.
Where do you think you're in--a communication trench or a field-dressing-station or a base hospital?
The Irishman, being new in the regiment, had never seen the General before, so when he came across him alone in a communication trench, he promptly put him under arrest.
One day, while in a communication trench, we were horrified to see our Brigadier-General, Old Pepper, being brought down it by a big private of the Royal Irish Rifles.
At one point, just in the entrance to a communication trench, was a stretcher.
He had his hand on my shoulder, as men in a communication trench have to keep in touch with each Other.
The Turks had retired some distance down a communication trench, but before our lads could build up a protecting screen and block the trench, the enemy attacked with great numbers of bombs.
I remember Major Martyn telling me how one party, on coming through a communication trench to our lines, had tried to kiss his hands in gratitude at being spared.
From the Table Top to the Rhododendron spur ran a thin razor-back ridge and a communication trench.
So quietly sneaking around the traverse, he came to the entrance of a communication trench, and ran madly and blindly down it, running into traverses, stumbling into muddy holes, and falling full length over trench grids.
Down the south bank of the highway ran a communication trench, which Beale-Browne at once ordered to be transformed into a defence against a Hun attack from the position that had been won by the enemy from the 18th Hussars.
There was no communication trench to the front line, but by clever use of the ground they reached the 5th D.
In one case a dead man (a stake) supported all four sides of an island in a communication trench.
A few minutes after this explosion one of the grenade parties, whose objective was the main central communication trench, had got clear of the tunnel, assembled and was moving up the slope outside the west parapet of G11A.
Lancashires not having considered it safe to move up their company until a communication trench, on which we had been working for some days, had been completed.
Special tasks were therefore given to many of the second wave sections of tanks, in which each tank was given some sap-head, crater post, or communication trench to deal with in addition to assailing the main trenches.
Lewis guns from it, placed one in action at the head of a communication trench, and himself fired a Lewis gun from the roof of his tank until the gun became too hot to hold.
Leading his platoon along a communication trench, east of Flesquieres Wood, he drove the enemy before him, bayoneting many himself.
Lieutenant Dow was forced out of his front-line trench into a communication trench.
This spinney, known as Boar Copse, was occupied by the Battalion in the line as an advanced post, and it was decided to wire round the edge of the Copse and connect it to our front line by a communication trench.
Support Line--A and C Companies and Headquarters--Front trench from west edge of Tadpole Copse to communication trench east of it and old German outpost line in front of the Copse.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "communication trench" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
