Showing posts with label underground war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label underground war. Show all posts
Friday, 19 September 2025

How WWI Soldiers Dug Tunnels Under No Man’s Land

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Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Miners on the Western Front

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 Article from Military Illustrated Past and Present here
Saturday, 7 June 2025

Charity shop gold

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Been looking for the Beneath Flanders Fields for some time but they had it for a quid in my friendly neighbourhood charity shop.   
Friday, 16 May 2025

Undermining the Enemy: Messines Ridge 1917 (WW1 Documentary)

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 Thanks to Elliott for this. New. 
Thursday, 8 May 2025

RE Clay Kickers Living History

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  Facebook  This living history group are doing a great job telling the story of underground warfare in the Great War. Check them out. 
Tuesday, 12 November 2024

In the Dark: Underground warfare 1914-1918 (1:40)

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 Lecture by Simon Jones. Here Simon Jones is a freelance military historian, battlefield guide and former museum curator. He is author of Un...
Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Underground Warfare 1914-1918 Simon Jones

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 One of the Library books I am reading at the moment. I didn't realise tunnelling in the war started in 1914 with the French and Germans...
Tuesday, 30 July 2024

Battle of the Crater 1864 (Cold Mountain)

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  Contemporary sketch of Col. Pleasants supervising the placement of powder in the mine Here . Today's anniversary. Wiki
Sunday, 7 July 2024

William Hackett V.C.

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 A short film about a recipient in my Grandfather's company. Here . He was 43. Wiki
Wednesday, 12 June 2024

'Bastion du Mat, from the Central Bastion' from the National Army Museum

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Coloured tinted lithograph. One of 41 lithographs from 'The Seat of War in the East - Second Series', after William Simpson. Publish...

Crimean War tunnelling

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 This image is from the Yale Center for British Art. Saw it in the Osprey below. Artist wiki

The War Underground 1914-18 Tactics and equipment. Simon Jones Adam Hook

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 This Osprey (here) that is fairly new my daughter bought me for my birthday. It's very good. Stuff on all nations including French and...
Tuesday, 21 May 2024

THE UNDERGROUND WAR VOLUME 1: VIMY RIDGE TO ARRAS

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 Just ordered this from the library. Cover image is good.  This is the first part of a planned four-volume series focusing on a hitherto lar...

William Hackett VC

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 A sapper in my Grandfather's tunnelling company 254. Awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. Read his interesting story here On the subjec...
Friday, 23 February 2024

Forthcoming Osprey

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  This absorbing illustrated study reveals the evolving tactics and techniques used by all sides in the underground war during 1914–18. Cove...

German tunnelers 1916

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 Pioniere
Thursday, 7 December 2023

A Confederate counter mine burrow at Fort Mahone, Petersburg, Virginia

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Tunnelling in the Crimean War

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 From the wiki on Tunnel  warfare edit As early as 1840  Eduard Totleben  and Schilder-Schuldner had been engaged on questions of organisati...

Royal Sappers and Miners in the Crimean War

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 Read about them here  in volume 2 of their history in the Crimea Photograph of three soldiers of the Royal Sappers and Miners who served in...
Friday, 14 July 2023

Fights below the ground

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 I don't remember where this was from. If anyone knows? New label on this blog Underground war. Article here on tunnelling.