Utiliser "battalion" dans une phrase

1. It was raining fit to flood the world, a storm brewing up with the wailing mewl of legion cats being chased by battalion dogs

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2. That is why we call it her little battalion”

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3. Justice waved a hand and a third of the battalion exploded in a wave of fire

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4. As he looked around, his gray eyes darting between the other soldiers in his battalion, they all appeared steeled for engagement

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5. “What about you young Lamb how are you feeling alright?” He looked at the bandage on my leg and I could tell that he was concerned and that was why he was one of the finest officers that we had in the Battalion

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6. It seems however that because of the number of casualties not only to our Company but to the Fusiliers Battalion which has suffered a serious percentage of dead and wounded

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7. “Here you are Sir have a drink we might as well make the most of it whilst were here Then we can inform Battalion that we have found a source of water close at hand

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8. “Call the runner up will you Sergeant Wallace and we will let the Battalion know we have found a supply of ‘Adams Ale’ and they can send the mules with the water cans soonest it will certainly be good news they will appreciate

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9. Tell Major Danby that we have found a source of water and that he can inform Battalion

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10. “Whoa tiger calm yourself or you will bloody explode I am only taking the piss I know your one of the best shots in the battalion and that you have just killed three Turks so stop flapping your gums

11. “I think it’s a disgrace that the Captain has stained the honour of our Battalion by shooting wounded enemy prisoners and I shall report it when a more senior Officer arrives

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12. “Thank you very much Sir and I appreciate the offer but I will stick with my Battalion and my friends

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13. “How, did it happen, when and where did it happen?” I shook my head I could understand him needing to know but Charlie was our mate as well and had been one of the first to join the Battalion with us

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14. It made us proud to have been attached to the Battalion but what had us smiling even more was the fact that Captain Melstone had won the Military Cross and CSM Domby had won a bar to his Military Medal and Sgt Dawson had been awarded the Military Medal as well

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15. ” I took this in thinking bloody hell the whole Division must have landed and I knew that this put the Battalion in a better position than on the first few days but it still didn’t sound all that convincing

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16. I knew that he was with the 42nd Division and that he was with the 1/5th Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers and that they were part of the 125th Lancashire Fusilier Brigade so he was sure to be landing today and I hoped to god it went well

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17. “Hello lads this is Lt Smith who has been lent to us by the 1st8th Battalion as a replacement for Lt Cole

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18. We had grown callas towards it and some even saw it as their friend not only that but the Lieutenant was not a friend of ours really and had not joined up with us in the Battalion and was when it all came down to it an outsider

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19. I cleaned my rifle and then we returned to our own sector with the Fusiliers thanks ringing in our ears when we got there more congratulations were heaped on us and I was told how proud the Company and Battalion were of me

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20. A few days later George, Frank and Bert turned up again and shocked me by telling me the Battalion was heading back to England and then over to France for some big show that was about to happen

21. “Is it you that wants to leave our lovely little hospital?” I told him what I had told the nurse about the Battalion leaving so he said

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22. “Well Billy Boy take care of yourself and get better soon don’t be hanging around here chasing nurses get back to the Battalion as soon as you can

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23. Then came a real low point when Archie’s turn came to be released he was going back to Mena Camp to Cairo to join another Battalion

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24. “Thank you very much Sir you don’t know what it means to me I am itching to get back to my Battalion

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25. “Right lad go with the Corporal here and he will see you get a new uniform the see the Paymaster he will issue with a little of your outstanding pay the rest you will get from your Battalion

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26. ” She sipped her sherry and at this moment I felt very lonely with out my mates I would have given anything to have Elijah or Bert or any of my other comrades in the Battalion here with me

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27. It was different being in the army and especially being in a Pals Battalion because we were special and a race apart from civilians like these stood at the bar

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28. ” I looked at Anne now with a new kind of respect and also a certain amount of wariness as that right hand would have made the Battalion boxing champion proud

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29. “I have only just arrived back so I have seen no one from the Battalion but they know I will be staying here and so they will no doubt send instructions to me

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30. The time came for me to go and see the Doctor at the Infirmary as I had just received orders that as soon as I was fit enough I was to report back to the Battalion

31. My home now was in the army and with the Battalion I missed my mates and the life which was structured and always busy so there was no time for depression or boredom

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32. I was really happy because like I said as much as I loved the girls I was getting bored and I missed the camaraderie of the Battalion and after all you can have too much of a good thing

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33. Rosie was tearful but wished me luck turning away to hide her tears I said to her that it could be quite awhile before I was recalled to the Battalion so she shouldn’t fret too much

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34. However I was wrong about the amount of time I had and just five days later a telegram arrived informing me that I should report to the Battalion at a transit camp on Salisbury plain

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35. ” I looked at my sweet Rosie and wondered how I could have been so blind not to see what was in front of me but I was mad at her for telling me this now as I was returning to the Battalion

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36. “Thank you Sir I am fine now just glad to be back with the Battalion

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37. I must admit and I know it sounds selfish and not what’s expected but I couldn’t wait to get back off leave to the Battalion

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38. “Like I said I was standing in the office when all hell breaks loose all Battalion Officers are being called to a meeting and signals are flying about like confetti

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39. Cyclostat copies of orders are being drafted and then and then I get an order that has just come to us from Battalion H

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40. “The Battalion is to leave immediately for France what do you think of my news now then worth waiting for wasn’t it?” There was now sheer pandemonium and delight in our hut lads were cheering slapping each other on the back play fights had broken out and now people from other huts were packing into ours to see what was going on

41. There was a lot to do however and this time there would be no advance party we were moving in full Battalion order

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42. The battalion moved out and entrained at Salisbury railway station and set off for the crossing destinations the majority of the Battalion would cross for France by way of Folkestone-Boulogne

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43. However our platoon had been volunteered to accompany the Battalion transport which was going via Southampton-Le Havre so once again after a trip on the G

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44. Instead we are here but the good news is that the Battalion is needed at the front right away and because of our experience at Gallipoli it has been deemed that we do not need the training and so we will move directly to the front”, at this news a cheer went up from the ranks which was soon quietened by the NCOs

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45. There must have been about thirty odd wagons of different types making up the train and the Battalion transport was loaded on board the train stopped and we were shown our transport and you could hear the groans all over the place

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46. Eventually we detrained at Amiens the provincial capital of Picardy that also had a famous Cathedreral, at the moment there were no orders for us and so we ended up spending the night sleeping on the streets with the Battalion transport with hundreds of other soldiers who were waiting for orders as well

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47. Our orders finally came through and at last we marched off on the long road to Albert the Battalion transport following us and the rain teeming down

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48. We were waved into a field by and MP who stood at the gate here the rest of the Battalion was quartered for as long as the Staff deemed it necessary

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49. Later that morning it was drizzling steadily as we went over towards the farmhouse were the field kitchens had been set up by the wall of another barn now that they had arrived by the Battalion cooks? We walked past Captains’ Melstone and Thornley who had maps and lists in their hands which they were comparing and studying intently we saluted them but they never even noticed so they must have been studying something important

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50. The village we heard had been abandoned in 1914 and the lane as it passed through was now overgrown some of the cottages had sustained damage but others were intact so these were used as Battalion offices and aid posts

51. That evening orders arrived for the Battalion and we were gathered together and told that we would be relieving a Welsh Battalion and taking over their section of trenches tomorrow while they went into reserve

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52. “What’s a cockney doing with a Welsh Battalion I thought you would be with one of the London mobs?” He looked a little confused for a moment as he said

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53. Two days later it was our turn to leave the front and we handed over to a Scottish Territorial Battalion we gave them the same information and help that we had been given by the Welsh

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54. Then we had a further two miles to walk back to our Battalion lines which took some time and when we arrived there we were absolutely shattered

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55. It was really bad and everyone in the Battalion was in the same boat we cleaned the old straw out of the barns and replaced it with new stuff burning the old straw and killing our tormentors at the same time

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56. “That sounds like a good idea we can see how he’s managing and give him the news about the Battalion”, then we both said together

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57. Standing there surveying us was Tommy Macy Elijah’s mate who had been seconded to the Second Battalion as an instructor and who was now a skater* his face broke into a big smile on seeing us

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58. ” We spent a very pleasant afternoon at Elijah’s and we regaled him Tommy and Martha with what had been going on in the Battalion and in France itself

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59. “Look who’s here to see us Daisy its William one of our Charlie’s pals who was with him in the Battalion

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60. “I will see you over there soon as well lads as some of us are rejoining the Battalion along with some new faces to make it up to strength

61. ” We all cheered Tommy and told him how glad we would be to have him back in the Battalion where he belonged

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62. “I wish I was going with you lot and the battalion I really do, I would like to thank you for coming to the house and for inviting me down here its been great being part of the lads again even if it was only for one night

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63. “Oh yes I’m with the 2nd Battalion but I stand in awe of you and your exploits on Gallipoli which people never seem to stop talking about”, he made this sound like the insult it was meant to be

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64. Anyway I won’t see him because he is with the 2nd Battalion and not ours

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65. You must promise me love you must swear on Helen’s life and I will rest easy?” I replied assuring her that I would be on my guard at all times but I reminded her that he was not in my Battalion and it would be unlikely that our paths would cross

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66. We finally moved into the front line trench taking over from a Battalion of the York & Lancaster Regiment who were a Pals unit like us

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67. We went back to the same trench system and once again moved into the trench system relieving the Battalion that was manning them who made their way into the reserve trenches

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68. There was my old friend John Pearson who had come from the 2nd Battalion and was now in charge of our platoon

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69. However George was going to be used as a runner by Battalion Headquarters and so he would be with them and not with us

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70. Before we went up to the line we had a few replacements sent to us from the 2nd Battalion which was due to come over and take part in the offensive

71. As it was he had been seconded to the Battalion Aid Station as a stretcher bearer, I saw him and a L/cpl called Stanley who had the most untrustworthy face that I had ever seen but I could not get near him at this time

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72. We settled in the front line taking over from another Yorkshire Pals Battalion and we began the business of watching what the Hun was up to and having to stand to at first and last light

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73. “Is Major Danby back then when did he return I thought he was stopping with the 2nd Battalion?”

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74. “It would seem that we need the Major more than the 2nd Battalion and it looks like Captain Melstone is going to made up to Major and become the Colonels right hand man

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75. About a week later we were again lined up with a Battalion of the York and Lancaster’s and the Barnsley Pals for a simulated attack watched by Staff Officers

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76. Up ahead I saw this new Battalion clerk that had joined us and who already had the reputation of a lead swinger and even worse a thief

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77. “Look honest I found the watch just lying on the ground where it was dropped I will take it back to Battalion HQ and hand it in there’s been no harm done

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78. He looked at one stage like he might argue but the look on Ted’s face mad him think twice and he handed over the watch and beat a hasty retreat back to Battalion HQ

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79. It would be Major Danby who would brief us and he was joined by a new Company Officer Captain Stephen Dawes who had joined us from the 2nd Battalion

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80. “Therefore our Battalion will advance in eight waves that will be two waves per Company and there will be additional waves for Battalion HQ and the stretcher bearers

81. We moved into the front line trenches in the early hours and the Scottish Battalion we took over from told us that everything was pretty Tres Bon

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82. This information put a feeling of dread in all of us and we felt scared and angry about it and we were not alone both Brigade and Battalion were worried about the lack of damage

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83. “Yes and Battalion are very pleased so is Major Danby and there the ones that matter

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84. “Our Battalion will be in the first wave of the attack along with some Pal’s Battalions from Yorkshire and our Company Platoons will be in this first wave

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85. I now looked back to where the German fire had been concentrated against our Battalion and the carnage was unbelievable and it broke my heart just to look

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86. As I fired I thought about what had happened to the attack and knew that nearly everyone in the Battalion I knew had been either killed or injured and my heart ached at the thought

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87. Watie, the Cherokee Indian Chief, surrendered his battalion to

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88. I calculated the distance and then sent short bursts of fire into their ranks I watched my bullets strike home and saw men drop and I remembered the Battalion this morning

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89. I looked over them and saw Sam Brown who had played the piano in the Intack Inn that Christmas in 1914 he was a member of the 2nd Battalion

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90. “Hey up Sam lad what are you doing with our lot I thought you were 2nd Battalion and I know that they are in reserve?” He whispered to me

91. “I was transferred to your Battalion and put in Charlie Company as a replacement for this show

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92. “What’s happening Billy Boy were is the rest of the Battalion and never mind that were are the bloody reserves?” I replied quite brutally

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93. “Lying in rows behind us there is no more attack because there is no more Battalion it has ceased to exist”, tears filled his eyes and he started trembling

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94. “Look who I found on my travels mate its Sam Brown you remember Sam from the 2nd Battalion

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95. “God I hoped they made it back to our lines I was going to say to look after the Battalion but from what we know there is not much of it left to look after

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96. “Let me introduce myself I’m Lieutenant Howarth of the 2nd Battalion and I need to ask if you are up to answering a few questions if you are I will try not to tire you too much?” I looked at him with the utmost suspicion thinking what is he doing here? But I replied

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97. “You see the problem is Corporal that so many men were killed from your Battalion in the first attack and there are so many still missing that we are trying to build up a record of who’s who

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98. ” I thought to myself bloody hell if soldiers as good as Colonel Terry and RSM Greaves had been killed then the Battalion must have ceased to exist to all intents and purposes

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99. Eventually the firing squad turned up and if I hadn’t been strapped to the chair I would have fallen off it for these twelve men were from my own Battalion

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100. “I am so sorry Cpl Lamb that it has come to this there is no one in the Battalion who believes it is true