Sentence examples for on their trenches from inspiring English sources

The Germans placed candles on their trenches and on Christmas trees, then continued the celebration by singing Christmas carols.

The regiment's first experience of combat started at midnight on 18/19 March when their Turkish opponents opened fire on their trenches.

They dug deep trenches with plenty of room, and they had bunk beds and stuff – they really worked on their trenches, to make them liveable.

Always a band to wear their influences on their trench coats, a melody reminiscent of the Crystals' And Then He Kissed Me drips into the classic jangly indie of Make Us Blind.

Iraqi troops on the ground heard the Pioneer's distinctive buzzing sound, and having witnessed the effects of Missouris artillery strike on their trench line, the Iraqi troops decided to signal their willingness to surrender by waving makeshift white flags, an action dutifully noted aboard Wisconsin.

Under the early light we saw our foes moving recklessly about on top of their trenches.

Finally, some men started leaving their trenches, waved on by the other side, and meeting in the middle".

It will soon be 95 years since the Christmas Day truce, when British and German troops left their trenches on the Western Front for improvised games of soccer in No Man's Land.

Christmas Day Truce In 1914, soldiers along the western front, fighting on opposing sides, left their trenches and walked into no man's land where they exchanged gifts and played football.

The play is inspired by real events "when soldiers along the Western Front left their trenches on Christmas Eve to meet their enemies in No Man's Land to talk, exchange gifts and play football", the company added.

They heard powerful eyewitness testimony of the "terrific, hurtling death" experienced by the thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers who obeyed the whistles at 7.30am on 1 July, rising from their trenches to be scythed down by German gunners.