"They snipe us with five-point-NINES," said a young officer, smoking a cigarette, with his back to a broken wall in a heap of ruins.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Their revenge is sweet and frightful, and they call the captured guns, those monstrous five-point-NINES, their trench-mortar battery.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
They had been put in an enclosure, next to a Canadian field dressing-station flying the Red Cross, when suddenly the enemy's guns began to shell the area with five-point-NINES.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs