After the usual period of intensive training in the back areas it was divided into several groups for training alongside the French in front line trenches.
Later the battalion held a front line position at Monthois, and it finally formed a salient in the line of the 9th French Army Corps.
Nearly two years elapsed before I was again living in front line trenches.
Vast communication trenches, six to ten feet deep, ran back for miles behind the front line.
From here there was a splendid view of the country just behind the British front line.
The 116th Battalion will move up forthwith and take over the line from the 7th Brigade, holding a front line from Q.
Gould) would capture and hold the German front line (known as Metal Trench) looking after any machine guns and trench mortar posts found on the slag heap, together with all dug-outs in the neighborhood.
The object of this being to give the Battalion training in actual warfare with men who were already experienced in front line work.
On the 15th September we relieved the 58th Battalion in the front line (Totnes Trench), situated in front of Mericourt, at an average distance of fifteen hundred yards from the Bosch front line.
But on they went and entered the German front line, where they were lost to view.
In the attack that had been launched against Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Somme offensive, a mine had been exploded just short of the enemy's front line.
Havrincourt village lay behind the enemy's front line on a ridge that dominated our own positions.
The consternation and disorganization caused by the sudden onslaught of these cars, at places fully ten miles behind the enemy's front line of that morning, may be left to the imagination.
But the Air Force had another interesting duty, which was to watch the roads leading back from the enemy's front line to his rear areas.
Then our guns in the rear lifted their fire from the enemy's front line to his reserve trenches, and the attacking parties of grenadiers and riflemen advanced to the site of the barricade.
Gun Alley; front line held by two companies only; the two platoons of D Coy.
Possibly these amenities existed somewhere, but certainly all the years we were in France we never came across such a front line.
The soldiers who held this old front line of ours saw this grass and wire day after day, perhaps, for many months.
The fork of the road marks where our oldfront line ran.
For about three hundred yards here the space between the lines is filled with the craters of mines exploded under the enemy's front line.
Trench by trench we worked our way into the British front line.
I was staying in a hospital with the Countess V----, a front line ambulance in this section where fighting had been heavy.
The soldier laid an inordinate value upon personal participation in front line work, ignoring the orders which necessarily kept the major part of the A.
In hospital work, in front line service, even in the ordinary routine of the rest area, we came closer to one another than ever in civil life.
This consisted of their being attached to other units that were garrisoning the front line.
Ensconced in one of the offshoots of the Wadi Ghuzzeh well behind the front line, we enjoyed safety from shelling.
On one occasion, the General was going round the front line accompanied by the Intelligence Officer (who is the Officer that selects the pass-word which is changed daily) and by the C.
In part of the Loamshires' front line, mining activity was great.
We are digressing far from the Sapper and the machine-gun officer who stood by a derelict tank in the damp mist of an October dawn and cogitated on the direction of their particular piece of front line.
On the night of 18/19 March the Battalion went into the front line.
The ground to a distance of several thousand yards behind the enemy's front line could be, and had been, churned and rechurned into one brown expanse.
Now his dead body lay out in the open behind the new Italian front line.
On the 12th I went out with a Sergeant, a Signaller and Corporal Savogna, a Canadian Italian, on a Front Line Reconnaissance on the northern side of the Vippacco, in the Second Army area.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "front line" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
