trench-mortar

This post I was on my way to visit, when, suddenly, what seemed trench-mortar bombs began to fall.

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

Casualties were heavy and at 12.15 p.m. the assaulting platoons, being unable to get through the wire, withdrew to their old line to allow the trench-mortar and machine-gun fire to be neutralised.

The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison

"O.P." -- it had been a Boche trench-mortar emplacement.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

The crash of these huge trench-mortar bombs was satanic; and there was always a next one to be waited for.

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

The presence of smoke always drew the fire of rifle grenades, trench-mortar shells and even artillery.

The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride

The ridge, three-quarters of a mile in front of us, was shelled regularly, and every night enemy bombing planes came over, but, strangely enough, the Boche gunners neglected our cross-roads; we even kicked a football about until one afternoon a trench-mortar officer misdirected it on to the main road, and an expressive "pop!" told of its finish under the wheel of a motor-lorry.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

This front also lent itself to heavy trench-mortar work by the Hun, and

The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 S. J. Wilson

The beggar who has been going about telling a pitiful story of being wounded by a trench-mortar during the Jutland battle is now regarded by the police as an impostor.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919 Various

The diagram on the left shows one of the shells and its stem in their most up-to-date form; in the centre is the trench-mortar (its wheels off) with

The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 Various

Now, by "quiet" I do not mean that there was any cessation of hostilities for there is always artillery firing and sniping going on, with a fair amount of rifle grenade and trench-mortar activity.

The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride