Roulers
Americannoun
noun
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The Russians were going on from one success to another, and large entrainments of German troops were reported at Roulers, Thourout, Tourcoing, and other places.
From 1914 by French, John Denton Pinkstone, Earl of Ypres
Let me tell first the happenings of the Irish troops on the right, the Catholic Irish, whose own right was on the Roulers railway, going up to the Potsdam Redoubt.
From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip
The Royal Irish Rifles worked up the Roulers railway to the level crossing, and captured two German officers and thirty prisoners.
From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Gibbs, Philip
One flotilla bombarded the railroad between Ypres and Roulers, near Passchendaele, tearing up the track for several hundred yards.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan
As we approached Roulers, we found the town alive with people who had assembled to welcome that which they regarded as an army of deliverance from the dreaded Germans.
From With The Immortal Seventh Division by Kennedy, Edmund John
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