Title

Mining at Messines Ridge, Belgium, World War I, 1914-1918.Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers

Caption

Mining at Messines Ridge, Belgium, World War I, 1914-1918. The Battle of Messines was launched on June 7, 1917 by British General Herbert Plumer's Second Army. The attack began with the simultaneous detonation of 19 huge mines in shafts dug beneath the German lines. The battle was an Allied success and marked the first large-scale operation in which casualties sustained by the attacking forces were actually less than those suffered by the defenders. Stereoscopic card detail.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1914

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C53_326

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (3,6Mb) / 13,7in x 14,2in / 4114 x 4248 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male man men industry guy British tunnel Flanders Belgium mining miner military war underground front location century Britain soldiers soldier first world war digging concept battle B&W MONOCHROME Army warfare trench trenches Tunneling World War I WWI black & white black and white B W coal miner Military personnel World War One 1910s 20th century British Army The Print Collector 1st World War Battle of Messines Ridge military engineering near Ypres sapper TGN trench warfare Western Front WW1 Messines Ridge photograph sappers Realistic Travels Publishers photograph