Bazentin

The Battalion came out to a new hut camp on the Beaver Road, between the Bazentin and Mametz Woods.

The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry France, April 1915-November 1918 Ralph Bignell Ainsworth

Bazentin ended, the farther village of Pozières was left as the hub of the battle for the time being.

Letters from France 1923

In woods from the high trees of which he could have clear observation, as in the Bazentin, Bernafay, and Trones Woods, he had several of these emplacements, and also stout concrete fortlets for heavy single guns.

The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

English soldiers who had gone forward on the first day, shouting, "This way to the gap!" and in the conversation of some of those who actually did ride through Bazentin that day.

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

Ridge, above Bazentin and Delville Wood, giving on the reverse slope a fine observation of the enemy's lines above Martinpuich and Courcellette away to Bapaume.

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

Many batteries had been knocked out in their emplacements along the line of Bazentin and

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

It was thinking of the next defensive line upon which they would have to fall back if the pressure of the British offensive could be maintained -- the Longueval-Bazentin-Pozires line.

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

It was to be an attack on the second German line of defense on the ridges by the village of Bazentin le Grand and Bazentin le Petit to

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

Four-point-sevens (4. 7's) found them somewhere by Bazentin.

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

So they were used as support troops mostly, behind the Black Watch and other battalions near Bazentin and Longueval, and there these poor little men dug and dug like beavers and crouched in the cover they made under damnable fire, until many of them were blown to bits.

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919