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    1. Tall wine bottles are great for this! Just dig a trench and place bottles standing up as a barrier around your garden, etc


    2. across the drive, acting as a second line of defence, a reserve trench, behind which he


    3. He drives on, points out a freshly dug trench


    4. Through it all, through the jokes and the bonhomie, all boys together in the relief trench, I couldn’t shake a nagging sense of indignation


    5. He fetched more pieces of pipe with other odd bits and then pulled away some boards laying on the ground, heretofore unnoticed by anyone, which revealed a trench leading over to the side of the outhouse


    6. Before any time at all, he and Harry had run piping from the house to the outhouse and recovered the trench with soil to seat the pipe and the boards to protect them


    7. The man in the black suit and trench coat was


    8. She popped out of the car wearing a long beige trench coat, something


    9. Heather untied the belt around her waist and dropped the beige trench coat to the


    10. Johnson took off his trench coat and hung it on

    11. The Fare Skye was now in international waters above the deepest part of the Indian Ocean: the Mariana Trench


    12. Li-Na and Li-Li with the passengers and shredded MH370 were now slowly drifting to a deep watery grave in the Mariana Trench some 5,000 metres below


    13. The battle was an intense form of trench warfare


    14. Suddenly my friend jumped up and began to run to the front, jumped over the intercessor in the trench and began to run forward and take ground


    15. There was a general cry of dismay as the third wave clambered over the trench merely to be met with a field so liberally strewn with spiked metal caltrops that it was impossible not to step on one


    16. “But…how did it allegedly happen anyway? From this idiotic faux-conflict? Even I’d have pity for the poor fool if he’s laying in some icy Nordic trench somewhere in this hinterland


    17. They were stacked up in huge frozen waves to either side of the ship, forming a frozen wake either side of its landing path, and that was going to make it extremely difficult when they set off to go in any direction other than follow the trench left by the Elysian


    18. As we moved up the ravine ready to take the next trench Lt Walter Cole was killed he had just waved at me and was advancing with his pistol held out in front of him when I saw him jerk and fall face down into the dirt


    19. We had just poured a withering fire into a trench on our left knocking it out and bayoneting the Turks who tried to surrender


    20. “No thank you Corporal we shall be moving on after this smoke we have collected all the men from our Company in a trench on the left and I think my lads here are the last to be found

    21. ” The Corporal responded by saying, “Very good Sir but if you should change your mind we are round the corner”, then having told us this he made his way down the trench to the next set of men


    22. Now there’s a brew going down the trench so go and get a mug and get those bloody dressings changed before some disease sets in and takes the pair of you”, and with this he turned and walked off down the trench


    23. My head felt like it had been bandaged in cotton wool I looked down the trench and saw other lads who must have felt the same as me


    24. Major Danby stood on the back step of the trench and said


    25. He looked at us stood in the trench with our faces upturned to him and continued


    26. “We can go on just give us the word Sir”, mutters of agreement ran around the trench


    27. We had consolidated the trench and cleaned most of the rubbish out of it and the dead Turk bodies that had been left behind


    28. Now the sun came out in earnest and it was stiflingly hot in the trench besides this hardly any of us had any water left and our thirsts were raging


    29. “I know that feeling all too well lads and it’s alright Elijah can’t blame you for what’s happening either anyway I must be off on my rounds so cheerio boys and I will no doubt see you later?” He set off down the trench asking others about water and as we watched him go we knew that he was in for some serious ear bashing for his trouble


    30. The sun was high in the sky now even though it was only just after mid-day it beat down on the trench and us like a hammer on an anvil and crushing people with its force

    31. ” I got my kit together and we set off for the Command Bunker further down the trench as we walked I could feel the heat and my tongue was sticking to the roof of my mouth


    32. Dismissing us the Captain went off to report on the machine guns and we were left to stagger to our own trench weighted down with fatigue


    33. As we reached the trench we were hailed as conquering heroes and it was obvious that the story of the Turkish attack had preceded us


    34. ” With a last look of contempt he moved on down the trench and we could hear him continuing to cause havoc everywhere he went


    35. I looked up and saw a Fusilier walking down our stretch of trench and I had the strange feeling that I had seen him before but then again I had seen a lot of them since being attached


    36. Having just destroyed a trench to our left we carried on upward Charlie was in front of us he stopped and looked back at us down the slope


    37. ” He spat on the trench floor and his cheeks were stained with tears as he continued


    38. In slow motion I move to the far end of the trench and I can hear is voice more clearly now he is shouting


    39. ” I listened again and his voice seemed to be coming from a sap that ran off the main trench I turned down it and there at the end propped up against the wall was old Dawson


    40. We were thanked for our efforts and told we had put up a magnificent show and the what we had been waiting for happened and we were dismissed night was falling as we got back to our trench we slumped to the floor in a state of collapse were the cold bit into us and then the rain teemed down

    41. “What the fuck is going on what’s happening?” He was trying to stand up but had caught his tunic on a nail jutting out from the side of the trench which now held him back


    42. Sgt Ted Wallace was stood behind us commanding our length of trench and he barked out the order saying


    43. The ammo carriers appeared and started handing out bandoliers and clips of ammo me and my mates arranged the clips on the trench lip close at hand for reloading


    44. We dug our trenches like in France and settled down to this trench warfare although at Helles the trenches were nowhere near as close as what they were at ANZAC but this was only because of the terrain


    45. We were sitting in the bottom of the trench when a shout went up


    46. We filled our water bottles up while we were there and then made our way back to the trench Elijah who was always one for the off chance had filled the billycan up as well and brought it back with him


    47. He said as we got back to the trench


    48. When I got back to the trench I was greeted like a hero by Elijah and Johnny who were doing a jig of delight they stopped and Elijah said


    49. Then Elijah found a place in the trench wall that was perfect


    50. ” In the side of the trench wall a hole had been scraped out probably to store someone’s kit but it could have been for anything we shoved our precious store of wood into it and then covered it up with loose dirt and shoved a rusty bayonet over the top to mark where it was














































    1. It was the last week of August, he had trenched, laid pipe, fitted and made connections, run a drain to the existing out house, installed two pumps and a few fixtures, and was ready to test the system


    2. trenched in warfare, once is enough for interest or vanity – strained through a verse


    3. When our consciousness is alert and well trenched to safeguard its integrity, it starts ignoring the urges propagated by ego-mind and takes no action upon them, it simply ‘lets go’ all the traps thrown by ego-mind


    1. Helen was on the front line, down in the trenches


    2. The necessary occupation of a ditcher prepares him to work in the trenches, and to fortify a camp, as well as to inclose a field


    3. We started up the ravine that ran to the top of the cliffs and that’s when we ran into another Turkish surprise for we could see that they had cut trenches on either side of the ravine


    4. ” The time pushed on and so did the rest of us assaulting our objective at Hill 114 and securing it despite the casualties that we had suffered the Turks eventually withdrew abandoning their trenches which we took over


    5. “We had made our way off the beach and were advancing up the gully with your lot to attack the trenches at the top


    6. Eventually we managed to and I don’t know how to find a way out of this devils back garden and to our surprise we found ourselves looking at the forward Turkish trenches guarding Krithia


    7. In the mean time and more through luck the Turks hadn’t seen us and must have been half asleep the Officers went on talking as others watched the Turk trenches through field glasses and reported back what they were seeing in the Turkish positions


    8. “You’re probably right Johnny but I have looked at those Turkish trenches over there and I haven’t got field glasses but to my eye they look only lightly defended if you ask me”


    9. We all looked over at the Turkish trenches as the Officers conference broke up and the Major came back over to us he reached us and said


    10. “Gather round lads and I will fill you in on what’s happening it would seem that the Turks for whatever reasons haven’t seen us yet and from what we can make out their trenches are only lightly manned and not heavily defended as we were told”

    11. So get yourselves ready we start in ten minutes hit them hard and give no quarter we must take these trenches before they can reinforce them so good luck and good hunting”, he saluted and turned to his Officers and NCOs and then he walked over to the other senior Officers


    12. “I told you this would happen and that it would bode no good for us and I was right charging fucking trenches with a handful of blokes mark my words no bloody good will come from this escapade and that’s a fact


    13. Trenches had been dug and the new front line was a couple of miles up the Krithia road and although we had only been here six days conditions were bad


    14. We had finished our fatigues and it was someone else’s turn now so we were back in the front line trenches me Elijah and Johnny who seemed to have attached himself to us


    15. “Steady lads look to your front and wait for the next flares to light the landscape then when I give the order pour your fire into them and show no mercy don’t let them reach the trenches


    16. Shortly an attack was thrown in against the trenches we had lost in the breakthrough and the Turks were thrown back out of them suffering heavy losses


    17. Though the attack had taken its toll on the Division and with no reserves to spare we ended up back in our own trenches were we had started from


    18. “I know and that’s why I’m telling you it’s all over the trenches what happened to them


    19. The trenches were now static and the fight now was relegated to small skirmishes although we gained more land from these than from either of the two big battles put together


    20. We dug our trenches like in France and settled down to this trench warfare although at Helles the trenches were nowhere near as close as what they were at ANZAC but this was only because of the terrain

    21. However I would not be in the trenches for a few days as after the third day of the battle the bullet crease in my shoulder had turned sceptic despite Johnny’s administrations and the poison was in my blood


    22. “Luckily a couple of stretcher bearers risked their lives to come and get me and the other bloke they brought us back to our trenches only he was dead and I ended up down here


    23. Life in the front line trenches could be both deadly amusing and heartbreaking all at the same time and the lack of water was chronic and always a problem for we could never seem to get enough


    24. Sometimes corpses were left out in front of the trenches and of course in the sort of climate we were in they decomposed very quickly but both sides recognised the health issues that the corpses represented and a truce would be called so they could be policed up and buried


    25. “At the bottom of the trench Sir on the way out to the secondary trenches there is an old Turkish body buried in the trench side wall


    26. When we arrived back at the front line we could see that the Fusiliers had been busy and had taken another set of Turkish trenches pushing us another few yards forward


    27. We settled down in these trenches cleaning them out and making them more comfortable for us to live in


    28. It would seem that the Turks have been listening in to the talking that is going on in our trenches and they are learning the names of our people


    29. But I knew that in a moment that they would get quite a wakeup call when our bombs were chucked into their trenches


    30. I hear something and pull my rifle into my shoulder ready to fire but I relax as I realise that it is only a sentry coughing our nerves are stretched as tight as a drum and there is no better laxative known to man than being in front of the Turkish trenches

    31. The first wave would take the forward Turkish trenches and then hold them while the second wave leap frogged over them and took the reserve trenches and then we would be behind the lines and out onto open ground which would be easy going then


    32. This would take care of any Turks who manned the trenches again after the first bombardment had finished Elijah said


    33. “One barrage two what does it matter at the end of the day the Turks will be manning their fucking trenches when we go over the top and they will hardly have been touched


    34. “Very carefully look towards our trenches and see if you can see an Officer anywhere in sight”, he did as I told him and very shortly replied


    35. We stood in the reserve trenches as our Company had been designated in the second wave and as we looked foreword we could see the first wave of the 88th Brigade stood in the front line trenches waiting and at 2:20pm our artillery bombardment began


    36. But within minutes the Turkish artillery responded with heavy shrapnel and we could hear it pinging and rattling like hailstone on the front trenches were the casualties and dead had began to pile up before a single man had started advancing towards the Turkish lines


    37. ” Then at three thirty the first wave finally surged forward the day was hot and windless and at first things were going well and the first wave had started to take the forward Turkish trenches


    38. But within a matter of minutes the Turkish machine guns and shrapnel had turned the trenches into an hell on earth piled high with dead and wounded


    39. And back at our lines our reserve trenches were also chocked with dead and wounded from the Turkish artillery barrage


    40. Then the whistles blew and we advanced over the open ground and passed over the top of the Turkish front line trenches leapfrogging on we again hit open ground

    41. “Listen mate were not far from the Turkish trenches so we have to get out of here before the sun comes up again


    42. “Are you ready mate let’s go”, and we set off at quite a pace bent double and heading for trenches


    43. ” I explained about the battle and said I could remember everything up to leading him back and getting back in front of our trenches but I could remember anything hardly after that


    44. “Well we have been stuck on that little piece of land called Anzac Cove ever since we first took it and were in spitting distance of the Turkish trenches


    45. We slaughtered them but I will give them their due they kept on attacking there spunky little buggers and no mistake even though there were that many of their corpses in no man’s land that we could hardly see their trenches


    46. “Our trenches faced theirs and the distance varied between them anywhere between sixty and one hundred and fifty yards


    47. So we pushed three tunnels out from the pimple that was our salient opposite ‘Lone Pine’ when the ends were finally opened we would have less than forty yards to cover to reach the Turkish trenches


    48. A barrage had been going on for about three days and it had smashed most of the wire inn front of the Turkish trenches


    49. When we got into their front line trenches we found that they had been roofed over with pine logs and some of these were really elaborate constructions and we kept pushing to find a way in


    50. Eventually we found a way in and dropped through to the foul smelling galleries below then more of our attack pushed past these trenches and stormed the communication ones














































    1. I had a short, collapsible Army surplus trenching shovel from my Scout days


    2. Trenching and whatnot


    3. This being won, meant that she could come back to Redmond the next year without trenching on Marilla's small savings—something Anne was determined she would not do


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