177th Tunnelling Company
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The 177th Tunnelling Company was one of the tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers created by the British Army during World War I. The tunnelling units were occupied in offensive and defensive mi
Badge of the Tunnelling Companies of the Royal Engineers
Mine crater at Railway Wood near Hooge, located just behind the Royal Engineers' grave
Section of Hooge Crater Cemetery with location of a deep dugout made by 177th Tunnelling Company
RE Grave, Railway Wood, a memorial to men of the 177th Tunnelling Company
RE Grave, Railway Wood
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RE Grave, Railway Wood is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial and war grave located in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. It is located on the Bellewaerde Ridge near Zillebeke, about 4
177th Tunnelling Company
…ready for deployment in mid-February 1915. In the spring of that year, there was constant underground fighting in the Ypres Salient at Hooge, Hill 60, Railway Wood, Sanctuary Wood, St Eloi and The Bluff which required the deployment of new drafts of tunnellers for several months after the formation of the first…
The inscription on the base of the Cross of Sacrifice.