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Example sentences for "communication trenches"

  • There were no communication trenches and no light railways, so that all stores and rations, which could be taken by limbers as far as Packhorse Farm only, had to be carried by hand to the front line.

  • These were first used in communication trenches only, where the Monmouthshires were at work for us; later we used them in all trenches wherever possible.

  • The enemy retaliated mostly on communication trenches, using some very heavy shells, but not doing a great deal of damage.

  • We were fully expecting the raid, and precautions were taken accordingly to prevent any sort of congestion in communication trenches, all of which had now been accurately registered.

  • The constant bombardment of communication trenches threatened to isolate the left company altogether, and work was accordingly commenced on a new cut from Cambridge Avenue to the front line, called "Peter's Cat.

  • Communication trenches to the rear were non-existent and the breastwork had to be approached from the Rue du Bois, to which it ran parallel at a distance of about fifty yards, "overland.

  • The principal trenches dug were Deodar, Poplar, Lime, Elm and Skin in the front system, and Gun, How and New Battery as communication trenches.

  • In the short space of a couple of hours they endeavoured to get a working knowledge of the maze of communication trenches, and the hostile ground over which, if all went well, we should have to advance.

  • Communication trenches in this sector were the best we ever met, floorboarded and revetted practically throughout their entire length.

  • There were of course no communication trenches whatever, all communication to the front posts being over the top, mostly by tracks through the growing crops.

  • On the night of 27-28th the same number of men were out working again, improving the front-line trench and wire, digging support lines and two other communication trenches.

  • Each section of the successive lines of trenches was connected by an intricate network of communication trenches.

  • At 2000 yards the British infantry came under rifle fire, and had no communication trenches to curtail the zone of fire.

  • There was a long straight road leading to the village of Vermelles, with a crisscross of communication trenches on one side, and, on the other, fields where corn and grass grew rankly in abandoned fields.

  • We poked about the ruins, raising our heads cautiously above sand-bags to look at the German lines cut into the lower slopes of Vimy, and thrust out by communication trenches to the edge of the village in which we walked.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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