The frontage was some three thousand yards in a straight line, but there were over two and a half miles of front-line trench.
On the other side of the valley was a cut in the earth, a ditch, the British first-line trench, which was unoccupied, so far as I could see.
On the other side of this was two hundred yards of desolate stretch up to the wavy, chalky excavation from the deep cutting of the German first-line trench, as distinct as a white line on dark-brown paper.
The corps of which he was general staff officer had taken a section of first-line trench at Thiepval with more prisoners than casualties, which is the kind of news they like to hear at General Headquarters.
A few reached the first-line trench, including Lieut.
Wilkinson, at once followed the leading company and the bombers, and both companies charged forward to the second-line trench, where the enemy presented a firm front, although stragglers were retreating through the tall grass in the rear.
One unknown wounded man was seen standing on the parapet of the German front-line trench.
The British front-line trench is shown very faintly on this reproduction but can be picked up as it passes through the first "e" in Zwarteleen and traced up past the figure 30.
A glint of bayonets made a quickset hedge along the line of churned-up earth which had been the Germans' front--line trench.
In the front-line trench a small group of Yorkshire lads were chaffing one another.
Above a German front-line trench appeared a plank on which, in big letters, was scrawled these words "The English are fools.
Meanwhile the third company, after losing heavily in its advance, was busy putting the captured first-line trench into a state of defence.
The second company closely followed on the heels of those who had won "Dorchester," and the two companies charged towards the German second-line trench, which was carried.
At daybreak they discovered that they commanded a very fine view of the German first-line trench, and of its supporting or reserve dug-outs, which were occupied by the Prussian Guard.
Supported by the fire of our artillery and trench-mortars, two officers and twenty-five other ranks operated against a convenient point in the German front-line trench.
But the times of waiting--whether at the base or in the front-line trench--are most irritating.
Led by the gallant Major Quinn, the defenders pushed forward in short rushes until they were once again sheltering in the broken front-line trench of Subsection 3.
Past the Hants' trenches and the Essex trench they went steadily forward until they came to the big front-line trench held by the 29th Division.
Forgetting my orders to stay where I was, I hopped in with the Infantry and reached Fritz' second-line trench.
Our barrage again drove Fritz back, thus converting the sixth-line trench into a No Man's Land.
For a front-line trench and an attack started by the enemy, the S.
On my left, my older brother, Gordon, who was supporting a trench mortar battery in the front-line trench, was working away within 500 yards of me.
We had emerged from the front-line trench on our way back.
But what is that sudden disturbance in the front-line trench?
Yes, they are shelling that farm behind the German second-line trench.
I was in a front-line trench on the Western Front, and oh, how I wished I were back in Jersey City.
I have tried to tell my experiences in the language of Tommy sitting on the fire step of a front-line trench on the Western Front--just as he would tell his mate next him what was happening at a different part of the line.
The summit of our excitement was attained when we were led into the first-line trench.
The sand creeps into everything; that is why the poilus, for the entire length of the first-line trench, have placed cigar-boxes in which to keep their cartridges.
At night we all go together into the first-line trench, where there are but few soldiers.
They will tell the tale of the front-line trench, And the one cold meal at night, And the terrible song of the bursting shells, And the flares' uncanny light.
They tried to find, by word or act, In front-line trench or rear, Some circumstance that would betray His treacherous dealings clear.
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