Archive recordings of the tunnellers who fought underground in WW1. They would dig tunnels under no-mans-land to detonate explosives under enemy positions. It was extremely dangerous work. During ...

Archive recordings of the tunnellers who fought underground in WW1. They would dig tunnels under no-mans-land to detonate explosives under enemy positions. It was extremely dangerous work.

At the Battle of Messines in 1917, British tunnellers placed 455 tons of explosive in 21 tunnels that had taken more than a year to prepare. The giant blast killed 10,000 Germans.

Tunnellers worked underground to blow up enemy trenches. The first memorial to the work of the tunnellers is being unveiled in Givenchy, northern France, in June. It is hoped to invite his descendants ...

9: They were the first New Zealanders on the Western Front, arriving in France in the cold spring of 1916.

Waihī miners’ ties with WW1 French tunnellers commemorated in visit by French dignitaries . ... French Ambassador Her Excellency Laurence Beau at the New Zealand Tunnellers Memorial in Waihī.

A memorial to the brave New Zealand tunnellers who built a vast underground city used by thousands of British troops during WW1 was unveiled last weekend in France.

At the Battle of Messines in 1917, British tunnellers placed 455 tons of explosive in 21 tunnels that had taken more than a year to prepare. The giant blast killed 10,000 Germans.