They slumbered on as best they could in their box-car berths, while the special was pulled in on a siding, to remain until daylight when the order to detrain was to be issued.
Orders todetrain for an embarkation center were momentarily expected.
Stop for night mess was made at Les Laumes, where orders were also issued for the troops to get their packs ready as the outfit would detrain in about three hours time.
In the afternoon stop was made at Dijon, where the troops got a chance to detrain and partake of refreshments that a corps of French Red Cross workers served at the station.
It was sixteen months since they had left Blangy to detrainin a blizzard at Achiet-le-Grand and fight in the snow at Bullecourt.
There we found Ritchie's four tanks with that excellent Mac of the 1st Battalion, who had helped us to detrain at Achiet-le-Grand.
The Commander-in-Chief may be forced to ask Marshal French to co-operate with British Divisions as they detrain and without waiting for the whole of the detrainment to be carried out.
I received news on this day that the 21st French Corps had commenced to detrain 3 miles west of Lille.
In one instance a General refused to allow his men to detrain on arrival at their destination at night, saying they would be more comfortable in the carriages than in the snow.
We were not allowed to detrain at Abbeville till 9.
They detrain Dervish troops at this point," said he, "and march them to the shore to be shipped to Gallipoli, because they riot and make trouble if kept in barracks in Skutari or Stamboul.
Colonel Kirby left the train and spoke with the general, and then gave the order for us to detrain at once; and we did so very swiftly, men, and horses, and baggage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detrain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
