After our party had investigated about forty yards of the trench they were driven out by a heavy bombardment of rifle-grenades and mortar-bombs.
Heavy bombardment of our line west of Dyke Road while our artillery retaliates on Coulee and Below Trenches.
Throughout the afternoon all the proposed objectives were subjected to a heavy bombardment, which at 4.
Our new trench south of the Quadrilateral between Dyke Road and Below Trench suffers a heavy bombardment.
About the same hour of the morning when this advance was made the Germans under cover of a heavy bombardment attacked in the neighborhood of the Ypres-Menin road.
Often they collapsed under a heavy bombardment, burying alive whole companies in the ruins.
The assault was preceded by a heavy bombardment in which gas shells were freely used, but the British artillery and machine-gun fire was so intense that the attackers were driven back in disorder.
In the evening, under cover of a heavy bombardment, three bodies of German troops attempted to raid British positions in the vicinity of Mericourt southeast of Lens.
The work of the infantry was preceded by a heavy bombardmentto which the German artillery replied.
The British plan of attack embraced a heavy bombardment to demoralize their enemy and prevent reenforcement.
In the evening of this date, under cover of a heavy bombardment, a German patrol consisting of about forty men made an attempt to reach the British lines to the north of Ypres.
Early in the afternoon the French infantry after a heavy bombardment of the enemy lines pushed forward and gained a foothold in the Bois Étoile which was held by troops of Saxony.
Following a heavy bombardment, the enemy attacked the French Division at about 5 P.
We answered that we would attack at nightfall, but that the attack would be preceded by a heavy bombardment.
This feint attack took the form of a heavy bombardment of the enemy's front line by all available guns, starting at about 5 p.
On the afternoon of the 22nd the French lines were subjected to a heavy bombardment, following which at about 5 p.
At seven o’clock on the morning of the 20th February, the artillery opened up a heavy bombardment on the hill.
It was thought the great War Lord would celebrate his birthday by making a big attack, but on the front occupied by the 47th Division he was apparently satisfied with a heavy bombardment.
Although the resistance from the Boche troops was small, their artillery was not slow in replying to our fire, and a heavy bombardmentof the British lines was soon in full swing.
As usual, the enemy opened with a heavy bombardment on the front line, support trenches, and Bouzincourt, gas shells being freely mixed with the heavier missiles.
After a week's heavy bombardment of the German lines, an important offensive movement was undertaken on September 25 by the French and British against the German lines on the western front.
At night the Germans counter-attacked certain portions of our line, supporting the advance of their infantry as always by a heavy bombardment.
These explosions were followed by a heavy bombardment of our front and support trenches with shrapnel, all types of trench-mortar bombs, and rifle and machine-gun fire.
The valley of the Steenbeek was heavily and continuously shelled, and after the capture of the Blue line, the area subjected to heavy bombardment extended up to the Pheasant Trench Ridge and across the Stroombeek.
These practice barrages disclosed the fact that, as soon as they were opened, the enemy could put down a heavy bombardment of 4.
It was, however, impeded from the start by a heavy bombardment opened on our trenches by the enemy.
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