177th tunnelling companyの例文
- From September to November 1915, the British 177th Tunnelling Company built tunnelled ramparts near the Menin Gate.
- When 177th Tunnelling Company arrived at Hooge in November 1915, underground warfare in the area was far from over.
- In November 1915, 177th Tunnelling Company arrived at Hooge and continued mining there in the defence of Ypres until August 1917.
- On the morning of 28 April 1916, a German camouflet killed three men of 177th Tunnelling Company, including an officer ( Lieutenant C . G . Boothby ).
- 177th Tunnelling Company was involved in constructing new dugouts beneath the Menin Road in the centre of Hooge, located in between strategically important in relatively flat countryside ) frequently changing sides.
- A short distance away is the RE Grave, Railway Wood, which marks the spot where soldiers of the 177th Tunnelling Company were killed between November 1915 and August 1917 whilst tunnelling under the hill near Hooge during the defence of Ypres.
- While tunnelling at Hooge during the defence of Ypres, the 177th Tunnelling Company also built a forward accommodation scheme in the " Cambridge Road " sector along the rear edge of Railway Wood, halfway in between Wieltje and Hooge.
- The "'177th Tunnelling Company "'was one of the deep dugouts for troop accommodation, the digging of subways, saps ( a narrow trench dug to approach enemy trenches ), cable trenches and underground chambers for signals and medical services.
- Beneath the cemetery grounds opposite the " Hooge Crater Museum " are the remains of a deep dugout constructed by 177th Tunnelling Company beneath the Menin Road in the centre of Hooge, occupying the space in between 175th TC's July 1915 mine crater and the stables of the destroyed Ch鈚eau de Hooge.
- The inscription across three sides of the Cross of Sacrifice reads : " Beneath this spot lie the bodies of an officer, three NCOs and eight men of or attached to the / 177th Tunnelling Company Royal Engineers / who were killed in action underground during the defence of Ypres between November 1915 and August 1917 ."
- It was connected to the mining scheme beneath Railway Wood and eventually became one of the most complex Hooge Crater CWGC Cemetery opposite the " Hooge Crater Museum " . 177th Tunnelling Company also built the " Birr Cross Roads " dugout and dressing station beneath the Menin Road further west of Hooge, and the " Canal Dugouts " along the Ieperlee.