The rest of this paper dealt with “Attack by Trench Mortars, Attack by the Spade, and The Attack on the First Line.
The trench mortars had fired close on 800 rounds in twenty minutes--a feat afterwards described by 4th Army Headquarters as the most brilliant piece of work in the history of trench mortars.
Rifle grenades, trench mortars, aerial torpedoes, and death-dealing whiz bangs were falling in all directions.
The cutting of wire was performed by the 18-pounders, assisted in the case of the front line by trench mortars.
The leading battalions pushed through the gaps between them, leaving it to their successors to attack them deliberately, with the aid of trench mortars and flammenwerfer.
With one great crash there opened a tremendous bombardment, of trench mortars by the hundred and every calibre of artillery save the 77-mm.
The German infantry advanced in waves, of which there seemed no end, and these were followed by batteries of trench mortars, until the front line of German trenches had been reached.
The deep cellars, usually to be found in the villages, and the numerous pits and quarries common to a chalk country were used to provide cover for machine guns and trench mortars.
An enormous quantity of war material fell into British hands, including guns, trench mortars, and machine guns.
Positions were selected near Ruesnes for the batteries, and across the railway close up to the front infantry line for the trench mortars.
Bennett was in charge of a section of trench mortars, and took part in the barrage preceding the attack on Bucquoy.
Since the German offensive of March, 1918, all the practice had been to wean the infantry away from settled defenses to the supple use of light artillery, trench mortars, and machine-gun units.
Bunn, were missing, while in the rest of the Battalion about 30 men were wounded, mostly by trench mortars or rifle fire when digging out "50" trench.
The enemy's snipers were mastered, and we suffered no more casualties at their hands, but our bad luck still pursued us, and on the 10th and 11th January the left of the Reserve Line was badly battered by trench mortars.
The assaulting troops were amply provided with numerous machine guns, Lewis guns, trench mortars, and storming-ladders.
At the same time a terrific fire was opened with artillery, trench mortars, rifle grenades, Machine Guns and rifles, and for over an hour an incessant cannonade was kept up on our front line, Support Company and Battalion Dump.
We now began seriously to try and harass the enemy with trench mortars, for which purpose Trench Mortar Batteries were formed.
Then I have had to cable for Engineers, trench mortars, bombs, hand grenades, periscopes.
The Anzacs are very much depressed to hear they are to get no more bombs for their six Japanese trench mortars.
Have cabled home begging for more engineers, a lot of hand grenades, trench mortars, periscopes and tools.
The captures of machine guns and of trench mortars of all types and sizes were on so extensive a scale that no attempt was ever made to make even an approximate count of them.
We have taken several machine guns and trench mortars as well as some fifty prisoners.
With his ideas still framed on Western standards he puts it forcibly, not to say ferociously, that we must, must, must be given our fair share of trench mortars, bombs and gun ammunition.
In one casemate is a small museum of shells, grenades, trench mortars, machine guns and all kinds of respirators.
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