Title

Sappers and miners at work, Ypres salient, Belgium, World War I, c1915-c1917. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers

Caption

Sappers and miners at work, Ypres salient, Belgium, World War I, c1915-c1917. Digging a tunnel under Hill 60. Hill 60 was a strategically important high point on the southern edge of the Ypres salient that had been captured by the Germans in 1914 as they advanced towards the sea. The Germans were dislodged from the hill in April 1915 after British engineers detonated exposives placed in tunnels dug into the hill, but recaptured it following a gas attack the following month. Australian troops took over mining operations at Hill 60 in November 1916 and on 7 June 1917, at the beginning of the Battle of Messines, they set off 450,000 kg of explosives in 19 tunnels. A large part of the hill was destroyed and 10,000 Germans killed in their trenches in an explosion that was said to have been heard and felt as far away as London and even Dublin. Stereoscopic card. Detail.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1915

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C59_476

Model release

Non

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

50.1Mo (2.8Mo) / 34.1cm x 36.8cm / 4028 x 4351 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male man men industry guy British tool tunnel Flanders Belgium mining miner military war front location century Britain soldiers soldier spade ypres first world war digging concept battle shovel explosives B&W MONOCHROME Army warfare trench trenches World War I WWI infantry battlefield black & white black and white B W coal miner World War One 1910s 20th century British Army The Print Collector 1st World War Battle of Messines Ridge military engineering sapper stereoscopic stereoscopic photography TGN trench warfare Western Front WW1 photograph stereoscopic card sappers Realistic Travels Publishers Hill 60 photograph