Heavy shell-fire has been concentrated by enemy batteries on the village of Irles, and he is also barraging with high explosives upon Serre, Miraumont, Grandcourt, and other places from which he has withdrawn.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
The Germans were barraging the crest of the hill, with their universal-shell bursting high with black oily clouds.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Out of these places, in all that part of the line, many prisoners were taken, and they made their way down anxiously through their own shell-fire, which was barraging these fields.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs