Air raid slit trenches were dug in the school's playing fields and part of the school site was used as a military prison.
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However, the half-tracks didn t assault D Company as such, they ran over the slit trenches until picked off by 6pdr anti-tank guns.
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During the Second World War two slit trenches and a three-sided Bren position were dug into Caburn as part of a'stop-line'to defend against invasion.
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Fusilier W Nodder of the Royal Welch Fusiliers writes home from his slit trench before the attack on Evrecy, Normandy, France, 16 July 1944.
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I have been badly hurt in a freak accident, I fell into a unmarked utlity slit trench and broke arms and shoulder in several places.
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Whilst positioned in a slit trench he advanced on his opposite number after British shelling of the enemy lines, to find all the German soldiers killed.
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Also, part of the school site near Grove Street was used as a military prison, and air raid slit trenches were dug in the school's playing fields.
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The soldiers of the 916th and 726th Regiments occupied slit trenches, eight concrete bunkers, 35 pillboxes, six mortar pits, sites for 35 Nebelwerfer, ( multi-barrel rocket launchers ) and 85 machine-gun nests.
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Scores of our troops were hit, their bodies flung from slit trenches . . . . A bomb landed squarely on McNair in a slit trench and threw his body 60 feet and mangled
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Scores of our troops were hit, their bodies flung from slit trenches . . . . A bomb landed squarely on McNair in a slit trench and threw his body 60 feet and mangled
