He had motored over from Naples to find them and bring them back with him.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
He has ruined all his roads, opening vast craters in them, and broken all his bridges, but our men have been wonderfully quick in making a way over these gaps, and this morning I motored over the German trenches at Roye, zigzagging over this maze of ditches and dug-outs by bridges of planks before getting to the roads behind his line.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
There was a lot of air fighting this morning because of this light across the landscape, and wherever I motored to-day there was the loud drone of the flying engines, and little fat bursts of shrapnel trying to catch German planes who came over on bombing adventures above our camps and villages.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs