wiring fatigue the tedious task of laying barbed wire to slow an enemy assault.
lorries [British] motor trucks.
munition-columns narrow lines of soldiers accompanying artillery to the front.
Feast of the Tabernacles Sukkot; a Jewish festival celebrating the fall harvest and commemorating the desert wandering of the Israelites during the Exodus; observed from the 15th to the 22d day of Tishri, the first month of the Jewish year.
second sight the hypothesized ability to see things not physically present or to foretell events; clairvoyance.
Flanders to the Vosges from a region in northwest Europe, on the North Sea, including a part of northwest France and the provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders in Belgium to a mountain range in northeast France, west of the Rhine.
pioneer dump a supply source for the pioneers; here, a supply source for the infantrymen who are preparing the road for marching columns.
coal-boxes low velocity German shells; nicknamed “the black Maria,” because they emitted dark smoke.
fete festival, entertainment.
nose-cap the metal tip of an explosive device.
gun-shy easily frightened at the firing of a gun.
