Time and again we were obliged to leave the road to avoid accident by passing over unexploded shells, and I shall always recall a gigantic oak tree which though still standing was cleft in twain by a 77-shell embedded intact in the yawning trunk; the impact, not the explosion, had caused the rift.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
In its banks were unexploded shells and deep gashes where the bursts had torn the earth down, and innumerable craters.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
unexploded shells lay everywhere, and the litter of great ruin, and storms of shells were bursting upon the Vimy Ridge.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs