Tunnellers The Story of the Tunnelling Companies, Royal Engineers, during the World War
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1936. Octavo, navy blue cloth, 334 pp., frontispiece, seven plates, illustrated with diagrams and maps. Cloth faded on spine, spine ends rubbed, some spotting throughout, otherwise a good copy. First edition. Scarce.
Foreword by Major-General R. Napier Harvey, C.B., C.M.G, D.S.O.
Royal Engineer Tunnelling Companies belonged to the British Army and formed a special unit in charge of digging tunnels under enemy lines during the Great War. Captain W. Grant Grieve, the author, served as a tunneller and, in this volume, recounts his experience and his unit. The opening of the Tunnellers offers a closer look at the creation of the tunnelling companies followed by the record of activities of the tunnellers in 1915, in Gallipoli, in the Somme (1916), in Arras, Nieuport and Messine in 1917 as well as in Givenchy and the Lys in 1918. Item #4036
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