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1. But, gritting his teeth, he fought back tears and battled on like a soldier on the front line
2. Helen was on the front line, down in the trenches
3. “We don’t expect to send him out on the front lines
4. He was near the front lines of an intense battle and in front of him was a seasoned intercessor holding the front
5. Heron followed their father to the front lines, and Carius followed his
6. Rex had tele-ported to the front line and
7. “Hold the front line!”
8. “We all feel let down and know that this would be a golden opportunity to take the front line and maybe even Krithia itself but orders are orders and we must obey them
9. Trenches had been dug and the new front line was a couple of miles up the Krithia road and although we had only been here six days conditions were bad
10. We had finished our fatigues and it was someone else’s turn now so we were back in the front line trenches me Elijah and Johnny who seemed to have attached himself to us
11. We got word later on that the landings were continuing and that casualties had been light and we now heard that the 42nd Division were ready to send some units forward to strengthen our front line
12. I was only kept at the medical post for another few days and then I was deemed fit enough to go back to the front line and so I grabbed my kit and off I trotted
13. Life in the front line trenches could be both deadly amusing and heartbreaking all at the same time and the lack of water was chronic and always a problem for we could never seem to get enough
14. A few days later we were relieved on the front line and moved back to a rest camp in the rear down on W Beach we marched down and entered the camp
15. A few days after this we were paraded again only this time we were told that we were returning to the front line and this didn’t disappoint us maybe as much as it should
16. In fact quite a few of us didn’t mind going back up to the line especially if it was quite because you could get used to the front line and there weren’t as many fatigues
17. So like I said in the front line there were working parties but you weren’t at it all the time like you were back in the rear so all in all we were resigned to going back up front
18. When we arrived back at the front line we could see that the Fusiliers had been busy and had taken another set of Turkish trenches pushing us another few yards forward
19. Both front lines were now awake and it looked like a fireworks display out here in no man’s land as the flares whooshed up into the sky and shots came from everywhere
20. ” We had also been told that when the first barrage finished at 11:20am then the whole of our front line should cheer and this would draw the surviving Turkish troops out onto their fire steps just in time for the second barrage at 11:30am to slaughter them
21. It was our turn in the front line again which I must say was nothing new to us as we moved regularly between the front and rest area at the rear
22. We stood in the reserve trenches as our Company had been designated in the second wave and as we looked foreword we could see the first wave of the 88th Brigade stood in the front line trenches waiting and at 2:20pm our artillery bombardment began
23. Then the whistles blew and we advanced over the open ground and passed over the top of the Turkish front line trenches leapfrogging on we again hit open ground
24. When we got into their front line trenches we found that they had been roofed over with pine logs and some of these were really elaborate constructions and we kept pushing to find a way in
25. I had heard of blokes stuck in the reserves that had offered bribes of up to a fiver to get to the front line
26. There were lorries and cavalry big guns and small guns supplies and men all moving through Amiens on their way to the front or supply dumps behind the front lines
27. As we continued forward we could see light flickering on the horizon and on the wind we could hear the crump of shells exploding and we knew we were getting close to the front line
28. As the night seemed to get darker we halted in a lane a short way from the front line and I thought bloody good show just let me sit down
29. Henry V, Charles the Bold, Napoleon and the Germans all of them had fought to get control of this land and we were doing the same thing but we could not be allowed to sit out the war in this peaceful backwater and we received orders that we were moving up into the front line trenches
30. We breakfasted in the morning and then started our steady march up to the front line as we got closer we could hear the crump thump of shells and trench-mortars and we also fancied that we could hear the rattle of machine gun fire
31. “Right you men fall out in this part of the trench and listed to what the men here have to say because it just might save your lives”, this was it then we had reached the front line
32. “How are things on this part of the front line?” The man replied
33. Sometimes it was hell taking supplies to the front the first mile or so was alright because either the wagons or mule trains did all the hard work it was when you got close then everything had to be carried by hand food water equipment had to be shifted to the reserve trenches directly behind the front line trenches
34. A few days after the lads had gone we moved back into the front line though this time obviously in a smaller section of trench than we had been in last time
35. The longer you had been in the front line the more you could recognise the munitions that were flying about and could even judge near enough where it would explode
36. These had taken over most of the woods behind the front line and they had established their horse lines here
37. Lorries, wagons and mule trains that were all now entangles as we got closer to the front line
38. As we arrived at the connecting trenches that would convey us into the front line trenches we had to hug the walls as men who had been relieved stumbled past us in their haste to get to the reserve trenches where they could rest for a while
39. 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
40. Generally the duration of our stay in the front line was four days with a further four days served in the reserve trenches
41. We settled back into our life in the front line like the veterans we now were as we waited for our watch to start Frank, Bert, George and me sat on the fire step when George suddenly said
42. We moved to the reserve trenches having completed our stint in the line it was alright in these trenches although we could never completely relax it was a lot better than being in the front line
43. It was now close to the end of April and we were due to go back into the front line this time for a protracted stay as we moved up I noticed for the first time some old graves off to our left on the corner of a woods
44. “Well come on then brainy tell us just how we are going to do this without reaching the front line German wire?” Frank replied
45. “Now your talking no one will be any the wiser they will think that you got it from the front line wire and you won’t have to face the danger of that
46. These were the two blokes from the Welsh mob that we had relieved when we first went into the front line trenches and they were really good blokes
47. We made our way up to the front line again and I was still stunned about Smith being here but as we marched on it seemed like it had only been a couple of days since we had left the front line trenches
48. 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
49. A short while later the German retaliation started and their shells plastered our front line and reserve trenches we took what cover we could in the bunkers
50. Things were beginning to hot up now on the ‘Shooting Gallery’ (front line) as the Germans stepped up there artillery fire and we also had a lot of ‘Flying Pigs’, ‘Rum Jar’s’ (trench mortar rounds) and ‘Obus’ (howitzer rounds) coming over