Word: shell
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have heard, I got in the way of a bit of shell last August and had a delightful time at Neuilly (the American Ambulance Hospital) for about a month. Then I applied for sick leave to England and spent a most interesting ten days across the Channel. It was my first visit to England, so I would have had a pretty splendid time anyway; but as an added attraction it was the open season for Gothas--the moonlight nights at the end of September...
...regularly the last three or four nights, and so everyone took it for granted that they would come this evening at about 9.15, because the Boche do everything by time table, which once established is seldom changed. The same is true at the front. If they start sending a shell in at a certain place at, say a two-minute interval, you can be perfectly sure that they will come regularly as clockwork. And once the interval is broken the firing does not start again. In the Ambulance we used to work on this basis and with almost perfect security...
...Bentley '17 died of shell injuries in a hospital in France September 17,1917, while in the American Ambulance Service...
...English progress continues, while the Mohammedans weaken, the lasting possession of Jerusalem seems assured. Unlike many places captured in war, this has suffered no bombardment, much to the satisfaction of all who wish the preservation of the relies of the past. A field of historical research undamaged by shell-fire and mines has been opened up. Through an easy approach and a ready withdrawal it has been made possible to seize the Holy city in its integrity. Unlike Rheims and other centres of mediaeval Christianity, the very home of our religion has escaped destruction. Whether the refusal of the Turks...
...20th to the old battlefield of B--.We now got our first impression of the real thing, because never before have I seen such devastation. Absolutely not a tree was left standing, and hardly was there a square yard of ground which had not been churned up by a shell. Yet amid all this we were driving on a road equal to any of our state roads, and which is typical of all the roads which are built across the fields up to the front lines. In addition to the devastation we were welcomed by a huge shell breaking...