Meteren

A history of the Low Countries, composed by Meteren, relates that a cordelier named Adriacem, a great preacher at Bruges, used to whip his female penitents quite naked.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

It was on the way from Meteren that I received my battle christening; the ceremony was performed by a bevy of six airplanes, two of them flying low and doing the sprinkling honors with a fusillade of bombs, dropped on the road round about us.

S.O.S. Stand to! Reginald Grant

The arrival of reinforcements, it says, enabled the British troops to assist in the extension of the Allies 'line where the Germans advanced from the northeast and east, holding a front extending from Mont Descats, about ten miles northeast of Hazebrouck, through Meteren, five miles south of that point, and thence to Estaires, thirteen miles west of Lille, on the

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various

At the end of ten days we left Meteren, arriving there February 28.

S.O.S. Stand to! Reginald Grant

We hurried into our war kit and formed up in the dark outside, and soon marched off to join the rest of the battalion outside Meteren.

Q.6.a and Other places Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 Francis Buckley 1915

By 8 A.M. we resumed our march, and went through Bailleul to Meteren.

Q.6.a and Other places Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 Francis Buckley 1915

But at first we moved off to the Meteren area, where B.H.Q. were quartered in a camp of wooden huts for about five days.

Q.6.a and Other places Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 Francis Buckley 1915

The country folk about Meteren seemed pleased to see us; I think they had got used to the ways of the British soldier and found him not such a bad fellow after all.

Q.6.a and Other places Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 Francis Buckley 1915

Fletre and Meteren, and beside him are twenty men of his battalion.

No Man's Land 1912

Cappel, along with Bailleul and Meteren, was captured once more by the enemy, and the village is now in ruins and its inhabitants scattered.

The Great War As I Saw It Frederick George Scott 1902