Later in the afternoon the enemy barraged his old line of trenches with heavy crumps-which is a way he has when he leaves a place-and presently shells began to fall unpleasantly near to where I stood, getting closer as time passed.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
But, as though expecting a raid from one point, the enemy only barraged round a group of mine-craters, from which our men had been withdrawn, because their shafts were packed with explosives ready to be touched off at dawn.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
At daybreak fire would have been opened from such cover as could be obtained, and while our eight machine-gunners barraged the post, the infantry would have advanced rapidly on the south front at the same time as the Cossacks charged in from the rear.
"With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia"
John Ward