By Damien Finlayson
These males have been engaged in a determined duel with their
German rivals to smash their opposing entrance traces by
blowing mines, conscientiously positioned in darkish, treacherous tunnels
under no man’s land. while, the tunnellers
worked to safeguard their very own entrance traces from the German
miners, motive at the comparable lethal activity. It used to be a battle within
a warfare in its such a lot literal experience. the key conflict culminated
in the simultaneous blowing of 19 large mines, with
a mixed payload of virtually 450,000 tonnes of high
explosives, underneath the Messines Ridge.
Over 4,500 Australians served at the Western entrance in three
Australian tunnelling businesses and their distinctive support
unit, the Alphabet corporation. round 330 males did not
return. The is still of such a lot lie in conscientiously tended military
cemeteries unfold alongside the full size of what used to be the
British region of front, from the Belgian coast at Nieuport
Bains within the north, to Bellicourt within the south. a few lie on
German soil the place they died in captivity. Others are lost
in the darkish, silent include of the earth and whose resting
place is understood unto God.
Australian tunnelling businesses took half within the battles of
Fromelles, Arras, Messines, Passchendaele, Cambrai, the
defence of Amiens, Lys, and the recognized final a hundred days.
Crumps and Camouflets, is the 1st whole historical past of
Australia’s function within the tunnelling warfare of 1914-1919, of the
men and devices within which they served, and of existence within the tomblike
tunnels of the conflict underground.
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