185th Tunnelling Company
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The 185th 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
Geological cross-section of the Somme battlefield
British-dug fighting tunnel in Vimy sector
174th Tunnelling Company
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The 174th 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
185th Tunnelling Company
…underground fighting had taken place in the winter of 1914 and spring of 1915 at La Boisselle, Fricourt, Bois Français and Carnoy. Fowke moved the 174th and 183rd Tunnelling Companies there to relieve the French engineers, but the British did not have enough miners to take over the large number of French…
The fields around Beaumont-Hamel after the Battle of the Somme.