| NOUN | a front line trench | front line trenches |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
22 Übersetzungen
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- As a sapper, Gordon was in a front line trench where he was under intense fire, men fell all around him and he was forced to take cover so often that he was covered literally from head to toe with mud and blood.
- The cemetery was established on 4 July 1916, employing a section of the old front line trench in Mansel Copse.
- Standard practice was to creep slowly up on the sentries guarding a small sector of an enemy front line trench (looking for the glow of cigarettes in the dark or listening for conversations) then kill them as quietly as possible.
- The leading battalions of the two attacking brigades succeeded in the first phase of the assault, crossing No man's land behind the smokescreen and seizing the German front line trench comparatively easily.
- By mid-afternoon 168th Bde held only a 400-yard stretch of the German front line trench and was cut off.
- The leading battalions in the attack left the British front line trench at 07:30 hours.
- Overall, he totaled about nine months of active, front-line trench warfare.
- German fortification of the area around Mametz and Fricourt had created a web of trenches [...] deep behind the front-line trench, which was irregular making many angles from which an attacker could be engaged.
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