Crossword-Solution: ARMENTIERES 11 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

How were they living? How did they like it? How were they sleeping? What did the Regulars think of the New Army? “Oh, a very cheerful lot,” said a sergeant-major of the old Regular type, who was having a quiet pipe over a half-penny paper in a shed at the back of some farm buildings in the neighborhood of Armentieres, which had been plugged by two hundred German shells that time the day before.

XIII At a place called the Pont de Nieppe, beyond Armentieres--a most “unhealthy” place in later years of war--a bathing establishment was organized by officers who were as proud of their work as though they had brought a piece of paradise to Flanders.

XVII Going up to the line by Ypres, or Armentieres, or Loos, I noticed in those early months of 1916 an increasing power of artillery on our side of the lines and a growing intensity of gun-fire on both sides.

Givenchy was once a mining village situated on a spur of the Aubers Ridge, which, running west to east, looks down upon the flat ground, stretching uninterruptedly northwards through Festubert, Neuve Chapelle and Laventie towards Armentieres.

Later on the battle of the Marne had resulted in the rolling back of the German waves until they had subsided on a line roughly drawn through Dixmude, Ypres, Armentieres, La Bassee, Lens, and southward to the French border and the trench phase of warfare had begun.