Plouff said: Now we got nothing to be scared of except searchlights.
"Command"
William McFee
Twenty-five prisoners were taken in that encounter, and over 800 prisoners were taken between the Mound and Ravine Wood before the day was done, with a great store of booty, including eight trench-mortars and nearly thirty machine-guns, though many more lie buried in this ground, and two searchlights and sacks of letters from German soldiers to their homes.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Then there are fireflies, which at first I thought were searchlights, as they were so very bright; cocks are crowing all round at the various farms; stray dogs, which seem almost wild, visit the camp at night and try to get into the kitchens to the stores, and occasionally they will start barking and howling; in ponds near are frogs croaking.
"My Diary in Serbia: April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915"
Monica M. Stanley