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The Arras tunnels
During the First World War the men of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company, many of them hardbitten West Coast miners, helped create a vast network of military tunnels under the French town of Arras.
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Page 2 – The New Zealand Tunnelling Company
With both the Allies and the Germans trying to tunnel under each other's lines to lay mines, the New Zealand Tunnelling Company's experience was invaluable.
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Page 3 – Further information
This web feature was written by Ian McGibbon and Neill Atkinson and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.This feature was developed as part of the Shared Memory Arrangement
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Main image: First NZ soldier to die on the Western Front
Grave of Sapper Tobin – New Zealand’s first death on the Western Front.
