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Roulers

American  
[roo-lairs, roo-ler] / ruˈlɛərs, ruˈlɛr /

noun

  1. a city in NW Belgium: battles 1914, 1918.


Roulers British  
/ ruːˈlɛəz, rulɛrs /

noun

  1. Flemish name: Roeselare.  a city in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: electronics. Pop: 55 273 (2004 est)

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Roulers, German advance on, 208, 219; advance on, of 3rd British Cavalry Division, 220; German advance from, 227; and entrainment at, 270.

From 1914 by French, John Denton Pinkstone, Earl of Ypres

"The next time you do tricks over Roulers they'll be waiting for you, Tam," said Blackie with a shake of his head.

From Tam o' the Scoots by Wallace, Edgar

It stretched from the sea through Ramscapelle, Dixmude, Roulers, Paschendaal to Ypres and the rage of battle swayed like a tossing ship in ocean storm.

From What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it by Smith, Thomas F. A.

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

Among other targets, Menin, Roulers, Ledeghem, Cambrai, and Solesmes railway stations were bombed by British machines.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various