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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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Indeed so little do I trouble that I mistake Courtrai for Roulers, but it makes but little difference.

From 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Bewsher, Paul

By this time, however, the 22nd Brigade had advanced some six miles from Zonnebeke to the neighbourhood of the straight road and the parallel railway which connect Roulers and Menin.

From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Hamilton, Ernest W.

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.

On September 30th they captured the city of Roulers.

From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by March, Francis Andrew

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