If it be impracticable for him to do either, the senior officer with the firing line, in each battalion, selects the time for opening fire.
Each battalion is conducted by its major, and is placed in its proper order in the formation, by the most convenient means and route.
In attack, the order should assign to each battalion not in reserve its objective or line of advance.
Here there was a halt in the barrage of a quarter of an hour, and here the third and fourth company of each battalion "leap-frogged" the first and second for the assault of the Blue Line.
Little musketry could be carried out, such as there was being done with a handful of short service rifles allotted to each battalion, and in some cases with rifles borrowed from the U.
Each battalion was to attack on a two-company front, in four waves.
Later on we were given a smaller portable type of board, coloured brown and marked with a black cross, a number of which were issued to each Battalion, and carried with us as part of our equipment.
Each battalion of light cars, called comtoises, consisted of six hundred, and might carry six thousand quintals of flour.
Subsequently two mortars were placed at the disposal of each battalion commander to be employed to assist the advance when required.
The disadvantage that came from these raids was that the casualties had been fairly heavy, and affected chiefly one company in each battalion.
Further, on 11th December it was arranged that the whole Divisional front should be held by two battalions, each battalion being on a one company front.
The attack was to be made in each battalion on a two company front, each company advancing in two waves on a front of two platoons.
To this end the early days of March saw the formation in the Division of trench pioneer squads in each battalion consisting of selected men under the supervision of a subaltern officer.
We propose, therefore, to deal in this chapter, as briefly as possible, with the operations during this period of reorganisation of each Battalion in turn, until the opening of the Allied offensive in August 1918.
This rearguard might consist of a small platoon of picked shots, such as we need in each battalion.
They give the immediate command of the skirmishers in each battalion to the battalion commander who must at the same time lead his skirmishers and his battalion.
The actual order to retire in this case was passed down by word of mouth from right to left by galloping Staff officers, who--in the pandemonium that was reigning--were unable to get in touch with all the units of each battalion.
Each battalion in its turn furnished an example of unflinching heroism which is an epic in itself.
Each battalion, in its own allotted sphere, fought to a finish.
The 22nd Brigade was now reduced to four officers, that is to say, one to each battalion, and at night they were finally relieved, and allowed to return to the retirement from which they had been so rudely summoned.
There is a certain number of artillery observers attached to each battalion of infantry.
Each battalion sends an officer or non-commissioned officer and a cyclist to the colonel, and each colonel sends a soldier to the battalion commander.
Each battalion commander is connected by telephone with each company commander, with the artillery observers, with the artillery commander, with his own colonel and with the adjacent battalions on either side.
We used to average about four casualties a day in each battalion, say fifteen to twenty a day in the Brigade, which made a big hole in the strengths.
Then we tore back, and I got the battalions out, or rather two companies of each battalion, set them to work, and sent out their other two companies to support them.
Each battalion consisted of seven companies, with an establishment of three officers and 50 non-commissioned officers and men to each company.
Company formed from existing personnel in battalions, each battalionfinding a section, and some from Headquarters.
In these circumstances the following points were emphasised: (1) The benefit of allotting artillery to each battalion commander in the front line.
And half an hour after the digging parties had left the trench, wiring and carrying parties, about a hundred men to each battalion, went out.
Some seventy camels were attached to each battalion, camping under their own headman somewhere near and sending in daily parties to draw rations and water from the A.
The explanation was fairly simple, however, as each battalion had a few miles of trenches in their sector and it was impossible to have them all dug to a plan.
Each battalion had to form up on a given frontage marked with stakes in a field of standing barley, and as the stakes were not visible in the darkness to locate them was not easy.
Each battalion for a provision-train should have two hundred and ten men.
In the French service, each battalion is composed of four divisions, formed in either two or three ranks.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "each battalion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
