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  • Thumbnail for Barrage (artillery)
    "quick barrage", a standard barrage pattern that could be ordered by radio without advance plotting of the fire plan on a map. A standing barrage was static...
    32 KB (4,643 words) - 15:37, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Messines (1917)
    a creeping and standing barrage plan and time-table, tailored to the estimated rates of advance of the infantry. The standing barrage lifts were to keep...
    103 KB (14,712 words) - 06:59, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 3rd North Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
    supplied the creeping barrage and standing barrage. Attacking into 'Chateau Wood', 8th Division got held up and left behind as the barrage advanced to timetable...
    43 KB (5,732 words) - 08:40, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for QF 18-pounder gun
    at four rounds per minute and 1/3 fired in the standing barrage on the German second line. The barrage was generally successful; but as the weather deteriorated...
    71 KB (9,347 words) - 19:55, 31 July 2024
  • 6-inch howitzers laid a standing barrage on the support line of the German front trench system, then, when the creeping barrage fired by field guns ahead...
    60 KB (7,594 words) - 10:51, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
    100 m) in front of the creeping barrage. Artillery not needed for counter-battery fire was to put standing barrages on the most dangerous German positions...
    70 KB (9,981 words) - 14:18, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Langemarck (1917)
    heavy guns of XIV Corps. A creeping barrage was to move at 300 ft (90 m) in four minutes and a standing barrage was to fall on the objective lines in...
    77 KB (11,067 words) - 14:16, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Attack on the Gommecourt Salient
    Farm held out despite several attacks. The German artillery fired a standing barrage along no man's land and trapped the British on the far side all day...
    73 KB (10,713 words) - 22:07, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Ginchy
    creeping barrage from half of the divisional artillery, moving at 100 yd (91 m) per minute. As the creeping barrage met a standing barrage fired by the...
    53 KB (7,895 words) - 23:30, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for 41st Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
    heavy barrage; while the field artillery fired a creeping barrage in front of the advancing infantry, the 6-inch howitzers fired a standing barrage on the...
    57 KB (8,069 words) - 16:22, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for First day on the Somme
    behind a creeping field artillery barrage that lifted slowly according to a timetable and moved towards a standing barrage fired by the heavy artillery, that...
    128 KB (17,896 words) - 15:43, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Capture of Schwaben Redoubt
    minutes after zero hour. After standing until 198 minutes after zero hour, to enable the 107th Brigade to assemble, the barrage would jump to a line 300 yd...
    46 KB (6,385 words) - 08:19, 11 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for 155th (West Yorkshire) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
    Shrapnel shell. A 'standing barrage' came down on the enemy trench line until the creeping barrage reached it, when the standing barrage lifted to the next...
    48 KB (7,071 words) - 02:20, 7 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Polygon Wood
    delays to capture pillboxes but then mistakenly advanced into the standing barrage, which had paused for twice as long as usual, to assist the 3rd Division...
    61 KB (8,336 words) - 14:22, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Delville Wood
    one hour and then thirty minutes. The artillery was then to form a standing barrage beyond the final objective, for as long as necessary and the field...
    97 KB (13,576 words) - 08:33, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Vimy Ridge
    creeping barrage by field guns, advancing in timed 100 yd (100 m) increments. The medium and heavy howitzers would establish a series of standing barrages further...
    79 KB (9,734 words) - 21:42, 29 July 2024
  • A standing army is a permanent, often professional, army. It is composed of full-time soldiers who may be either career soldiers or conscripts. It differs...
    23 KB (2,857 words) - 14:23, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Capture of Wytschaete
    creeping barrage of shrapnel immediately ahead of the advance, while the remainder of the field guns and 4.5-inch howitzers were to fire a standing barrage, 700 yd...
    62 KB (8,775 words) - 14:14, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1st Warwickshire Volunteer Artillery
    creeping and standing barrages ahead of the advancing infantry. As each successive objective the creeping barrage became a protective barrage while the infantry...
    96 KB (13,374 words) - 03:46, 30 April 2024
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    Yamuna (section Barrages)
    drains between Wazirabad barrage and Okhla barrage renders the river severely polluted. Wazirabad barrage to Okhla Barrage, 22 km (14 mi) stretch of...
    59 KB (6,200 words) - 14:36, 24 August 2024
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