The othersignaller on duty was buried behind the flag-locker, probably intending that it should be thought that he was busy putting away the flags used in the last hoists, though that might have been finished a full hour ago.
He knew little about the work, but another signaller was wanted, and he was sent to learn.
A pioneer was found hacking the casing off one for firewood; the cooks made a screen round their fire with others; while a signaller was found carrying one into the pill-box to put his candle on.
She stood erect, the signallerholding her right arm above the elbow.
Meanwhile the signaller had laid aside his flags and while the officer looked on he picked up a heavy sapling from among the fallen trees.
Then Evelyn Erith, rising cautiously to her scarred knees, saw the signaller gather up his flags and step into what apparently was the bed of the bowlder on the edge of the windfall.
The signaller saluted, gathered the articles mentioned, and went away in that clumping, rocking gait of the land peasant of Hundom.
The voice ceased: the flags whistled and snapped in the wind for a little while longer, then the signaller came to stiffest attention.
Now the officer who had remained, calmly smoking his cigarette, flung the remains of it over the cliff, turned, surveyed the forest behind him with minute deliberation, then stepped into the excavation down which the signaller had disappeared.
Malaria was taking its toll, and a few days later Signaller Boak, who had been the Squadron's Brigade Orderly throughout the last operations, fell another victim to its clutches.
My chum had taken his post at the end of the wire, and as the signaller was being carried away he called out feebly, "You're in touch with H.
We hurried forward, expecting to find that our signaller had been killed.
A Cockney signaller and I went out at daybreak one morning to add more joints to the collection, and after using every scrap of spare wire available made another temporary job of it.
Tale of an Egg I was attached as a signaller to a platoon on duty in an advanced post on the Ypres-Menin Road.
Now a guileless signaller would never imagine that Generals and the like were interested in lobster.
This very definite news was usually traced back to some signaller who had overheard something on the telephone.
I tried to locate the signaller on the Headquarters hill, but failed.
A silence broken only by rhythmic clicks, as the signaller catches the distant conversation, and his monotonous reading of the code.
There was work for the lumbering dragoon signaller again.
The signallershuffled his feet in the mud and hitched up the strap of the instrument on his shoulder.
An exclamation of deep disgust from the Signaller brought no comment until the last letter was read, but then the Limber Gunner remembered and remarked on it.
We kept our heads low and were hurrying on when we encountered a signallerwith two horses, which he had to take back to the main road.
As I was starting off, a signallercame up to me and told me he had captured a stray horse with a saddle on it and that he would lend it to me to take me to my destination.
Luckily a signaller came up to me and seeing my plight led me over to a light railway track which had just been laid, and told me that if I kept on it I should ultimately get back to the Arras-Bethune road.
Here, a signaller of the 16th Battalion happened to turn up and acted as my guide.
Again the signaller spoke over his telephone, and the vessel slowed down, and finally hove-to.
Forthwith the signaller produced a pocket telephone connected with the conning-tower by a long insulated "flex," and spoke over it.
Signaller Newton and Stretcher Bearer Cooke were killed outright, and Serjeant Woolley, acting Serjeant Signaller while Serjeant Wilbur was away, was wounded and had to go to Hospital.
The Captain of the ship asked us to post a signaller to read any signals, Serjt.
For some time Battalion Headquarters knew nothing of this disaster, and it was only when the Signaller L/Cpl.
When Barry entered the Battalion Headquarters, he found only Major Bayne and Captain Neil, with a signaller and a couple of runners, completing the arrangements for the relief.
He had no sooner reached his private room than his signaller informed him that Divisional Headquarters had just been trying to get him.
It is exactly like a signaller "offering" a train to the next block.
The Major, out on the road with a signaller mending wire, was hit in the face with shrapnel.
On the 12th I went out with a Sergeant, a Signallerand Corporal Savogna, a Canadian Italian, on a Front Line Reconnaissance on the northern side of the Vippacco, in the Second Army area.
The signaller has to cause this disc of light to cover the person whose notice he wishes to attract.
It should be recollected that a passing flash has far less briliancy than one that dwells for an appreciable time on the retina of the observer; therefore the signaller should do all he can to steady his aim.
When the British signaller wonderingly read the message, and repeated it to the Colonel, the latter, before giving his troops any definite order, inquired of the sender of the message as to his identity, and Pasmore signalled in reply.
He was blown to pieces by an eight-inch shell, but another signaller was never lacking to take his place.
The Signaller had stiffened to stock stillness at his first instinctive start and the switching off of the light, and after a long pause whispered back, “No, sir; but mebbe you heard a rat.
He held the light while the Signaller hauled down kits, shook out packs, and rummaged round.
But about that wall,” he went on, having reduced the Signaller to pondering silence.
He switched the light off, stepped back to the stair foot, and called the Signaller down, hearing the clumping sound of the descending footsteps and the man’s voice with a childish relief and sense of companionship.
Signaller should stand erect, well balanced on the arches of the feet.
A signaller who was with us, read the language for us.
The signaller turned to the senior officer present, "What will I send them, sir?
To my astonishment the signaller and the sentry came back without the brigade clerk.
Cycle orderlies sped away with the notes, and I was sending a signalleron a cycle to tell the sentry posted at Grandru to rejoin us, when I discovered that the brigade clerk had not yet turned up.
Wilde detailed a signallerto accompany the driver of the cart, and, with Meddings and two of the servants walking behind, the journey commenced.
Even as he told the signaller on duty to get him Divisional Artillery, a call came through.
Anthony Slingsby striding upright across the open, while he sternly commanded some diminutive signaller beside him to “keep his head down.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "signaller" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
