In the shallow trenches, which were ill-sited both for drainage and concealment from the enemy, life was miserable.
All the redoubts constructed in the area occupied by the 184th Brigade were so well sited and so strongly wired that the faith seemed justified that they were part of one impregnable system.
They in all cases were carefully sited and so small (being designed to hold machine-guns and their teams) that their destruction by our heavy shells was almost impossible.
These posts should be self-supporting, but should be so sited that the garrisons mutually support each other by fire.
Care must also be taken in consolidating the position that the entrenchments have a general alignment towards the enemy and that they are so sited as to protect from enfilade fire.
Immediately east of Garenne we had to cross a wide gap, and here the enemy machine-guns, which were cunningly sited and carefully concealed, got busy.
On the north and south flanks of the beach, he constructed concrete emplacements to shelter and conceal antitank and antiboat artillery sited to enfilade the expected waves of landing craft.
The gun rests on its skid plate and was sitedin a natural position.
The positions attacked were well sited and frequently masked, and there was also the complication of night assaults at short notice.
Observation for them was 132 bad, and the enemy trenches were wellsited and frequently over the crest of the hill.
A defensive flank was thereforesited and its construction begun, so as to round off the defences where the troops were in closest contact to the enemy and present to him a continuous front rather than an edge.
In this case each attack required delicate handling to prevent large numbers of men falling victims in an endeavour to close with a few marksmen on well-sited machine-gun nests.
A defensive flank was also sited facing south along the river Scarpe, and a second defensive flank facing northwards designed to meet an attack developing through Gavrelle.
To meet this form of advance a trench system was planned which consisted of a number of localities, sited checkerwise, each locality being capable of all-round defence.
The Hindenburg Line system, which subsequently became well known to the Highland Division, had been very strongly fortified and sited with great care and skill, so as to deny all advantages of position to any force attacking it.
The Germans had fortified this saucer, and garrisoned it with machine-guns, mostly sited so as to fire to a flank.
These machine-guns were sited so as to fire straight along the trench as soon as any attacking party had leapt into it.
The trenches--for the defences could not be called a trench system--consisted of a front line and portions of a support line sitedfor the most part so that it could not perform the functions for which it was designed.
Here the enemy were found to be holding a carefully-prepared line of resistance supported by numerous and well-sited machine-guns and trench-mortars.
The trenches were well sited and well dug, being very deep and heavily traversed.
The strength of the German defences was increased by the density and depth of their wire entanglements, which had been most skilfully sited with the support of machine-guns firing in enfilade.
View Trench was on the reverse slope of the hill, and probably acquired its name in the days when its defenders wore field-grey and looked in the other direction: for us it was well sited with a good field of fire of about 200 yards.
Three systems of battery positions were built so as to distribute the guns in depth and sited so as to cover the ground to the northeast, east, and south, in case the flanks of the corps should be turned.
This Blue line was originally sited and constructed as an intermediate position, and consisted in most parts of a single trench none too plentifully supplied with dugouts.
Each trench system was plentifully marked with signboards and many open machine-gun positions were sited and marked.
Switch lines facing south were also sited and dug or improved.
I had no time to question the good people of Reumont or to discover whether those exiguous, badly-sited trenches on the Le Cateau road were still to be distinguished.
A few field-guns, cleverly sited in ruins and behind hedges, had knocked out at least a dozen tanks.
Units who had sited their homes near the deres carved out neat villas on higher ground.
At the same time several single guns were distributed along the front for defence against tanks, being so sited that every possible approach by a hostile tank would be under fire from one or more of the guns.
The fort was to be sited several thousand yards behind the outpost guns and close to the main line of defence.
There was no defined system of trenches to attack except the old British line just east of Hamel, which had been originally sited to obtain observation eastwards.
The trenches for the most part were sited on the reverse slopes of the main ridges, and consequently direct artillery observation on them from the British area was impossible.
They took up their lines when they were strong and our side weak, and in no place in all the old Somme position is our line better sited than theirs, though in one or two places the sites are nearly equal.
Skilfully sited machine guns had taken terrible toll of the brave naval men, and their bodies still lay where they had fallen, so that one of our first jobs was to bury them.
They had also decided that a system of "defended localities," skilfully sited and constructed, would be the most effective method of breaking up the attacking hordes.
It was necessary to go down to a depth of about twenty feet, and as the well was sited in very soft sand the task can be imagined.
The pioneer battalion 7th Northumberland Fusiliers, who had come to the division in February, had been working upon them all day, and, excellently sited as they were, they inspired everyone with a great feeling of confidence.
The Germans had sited and dug it at their ease, to a great extent with gangs of Russian prisoners and forced civilian labour.
The lines had been merely sited by the French, and a little wire put up.
Much discussion took place upon the relative merits of trenches sited upon the forward and reverse slopes of undulating ground.
That fact proved how highly the men who had sited those trenches rated the importance of Welsh Ridge.
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