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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
Passchendaele: fighting for Belgium
Ever since 1917 Passchendaele has been a byword for the horror of the First World War. The assault on this tiny Belgian village cost the lives of thousands of New Zealand soldiers. But its impact reached far beyond the battlefield, leaving deep scars on many New Zealand communities and families.
- Page 2 - The battle for Messines The assault on Passchendaele was part of a vast Allied offensive launched in mid-1917, which, for New Zealanders, started with the Battle for
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Main image: Tunnelling Company Memorial, Waihi
The New Zealand Tunnelling company is unique in our military history.
