Trench-mortars and machine-guns lay everywhere about, in scores, smashed, buried, flung about by the ferocity of our shell-fire.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
His losses in guns, trench-mortars and machine-guns must be alarming to him, for I have no doubt at all, after seeing the frightful effect of our bombardment, that these were destroyed on a great scale, so that the number of our trophies will not at all represent his actual loss in weapons and material of war.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Many of the enemy must have been buried alive with machine-guns and trench-mortars and bomb stores.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs