Sentence examples for in a shell hole from inspiring English sources

I have a crushed thigh and am all alone in a shell hole.

He was, far too soon, a teenaged veteran in this open-air human abbatoir, a little expert in what happens to the bodies of young men when they are ripped open by hot metal and left to rot in a shell hole.

Lee and the remaining three survivors from his platoon, two of whom were injured, took cover in a shell hole and fired on the Germans, which "possibly may have helped 'A' Company, who had got into the German line on our left and were bombing down the trench".

Morgan suffered a near-miss from a German 5.9-inch gun which blew him into the air and buried him in a shell hole, and he was evacuated to hospital in Boulogne with shell shock.

Exhausted by my efforts, I paused a moment in a shell-hole; in a few seconds I felt myself sinking, and struggle as I might I was sucked down until I was firmly gripped round the waist and still being dragged in.

Set on the Cornish coast two years after hostilities have ended, the novel is a first-person account given by Daniel, a shell-shocked survivor who has returned to his birthplace without a family, a home or the companionship of his closest boyhood friend, Frederick, who perished alongside him in a shell-hole on the western front.

The dead were buried in a mass grave in a shell-hole, which later became the nucleus of the Orthodox Cemetery in Warsaw.

When the remains are identified, maybe in a long-forgotten shell hole, a local cemetery or, sometimes, buried at home, then a rosette is put into the wall next to their name to indicate that, at long last, the missing has been found.

"I got their guns and got back in my shell hole and started hollering, 'kommen heraus,' again, and sure enough, them Germans began coming out from around the different foxholes, and 13 gave up".

Many horses died as a result of the conditions at the front of exhaustion, drowning, becoming mired in mud and falling in shell holes.

Under almost continuous rain and shellfire, troops huddled in waterlogged shell holes or became lost on the blasted mud-scape, unable to locate the front line that separated Canadian from German positions.