Sentence examples for held this trench from inspiring English sources
They read: "The Devonshires held this trench, the Devonshires hold it still".
The Devonshires held this trench.
The soldier realised he was at some risk of being shot by his own side, and so "when he had crawled within shouting distance he enquired politely but firmly what —— bastards were holding that —— trench.
Despite the battalion's success in holding the trenches at Lone Pine, the August Offensive failed to break the deadlock as setbacks elsewhere resulted in continued stalemate and for the rest of the campaign the fighting was relatively static.
During the first battle of Ypres ("Wipers" to the troops), in October 1914, with his fellows dead around him, wounded in arm and leg, he held his trench until his last bullet was spent.
Office workers on downtown Market Street push through the billows of fog, holding their trench coats against the chill.
From 1951 until the end of the war, 3 RAR held trenches on the eastern side of the division's positions in the hills northeast of the Imjin River.
