Download or read book Canadian Tunnelling written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin written by Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Battle Beneath the Trenches written by Robert K. Johns and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undermining the positions of the enemy is one of the most ancient activities. For almost 3000 years even before 1914, it was a popular siege-breaking technique. During the Great War, arguably the greatest siege the world had ever seen, it presented a conflict environment that perfectly favoured the skills of the military miner. During 1915, the Western Front was established as a static line that grew into a huge network of defence-in-depth earthworks. Siege conditions demanded siege tactics and as the ground was everywhere mineable, the Western Front was a prime candidate for underground warfare.??Royal Engineer tunnelling companies were specialist units of the Corps of Royal Engineers within the British Army, formed to dig attacking tunnels under enemy lines during the First World War. The Cornish Miners were one of these specialist units recruited from the tin mines of Cornwall.??In February 1915, eight Tunnelling Companies were created and operational in Flanders from March 1915. By mid-1916, the British Army had around 25,000 trained tunnellers, mostly volunteers taken from mining communities. This is their story.
Download or read book Canadian Tunnelling Canadien written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Other Side of the Trench written by G. S. Willmott and published by Garry Willmott. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story deserves to be told. Garry Willmott creates graphic and quite horrifying insights into unseen and 'unsung' aspects of World War 1, where so many Australian, Canadian, British, New Zealander, American and French soldiers were slaughtered and still, today, lie uninterred in forgotten furrows of French fields. The author tells this story in a simple direct style which has an immediate impact. Garry Willmott's ancestors are among those who lost their lives fighting against the Kaiser's Juggernaut. The characters of the soldiers come to life and even in death, their spirits are revived in the telling. The courage of our soldiers and their betrayal by British Generals moves the reader to sorrow and to anger as we witness not only the terrible personal suffering of the soldiers, but also the long-term effects upon families left behind.
Download or read book The Underground War written by Nigel Cave and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first part of a planned four-volume series focusing on a hitherto largely neglected aspect of the Great War on the Western Front - the war underground. The subject has fascinated visitors to the battlefields from the very beginning of battlefield pilgrimages in the years immediately after the Armistice, and locations such as Hill 60 and the Grange Subway at Vimy have always been popular stops on such tours. Three other volumes will follow, covering the Somme, Ypres and French Flanders. Each book in the series has a short description of the formation and development of Tunnelling Companies in the BEF and a glossary of technical terms. This volume looks mainly at the central Artois, the environs of the whole line of the Vimy Ridge to the River Scarpe and Arras. It does not aim to be a complete treatment of the intensive mining operations along this front. It concentrates on mining, in the area of Vimy Ridge, in Arras itself and at the use of ancient underground quarries, taking Roeux as a good example. There are extensive descriptions of mining on and around Vimy Ridge, including photography and explanations of systems that have been accessed recently but are closed to the public, such as the Goodman Subway. The narrative draws on French and German archival material and personal descriptions. The text is illustrated with numerous diagrams and maps, in particular from the British and German records, and there is an exhaustive guide to the Grange Subway. Other sites open to the public, in particular the Wellington Cave, are also explained and put into context. "BBC History - Archaeologists are beginning the most detailed ever study of a Western Front battlefield, an untouched site where 28 British tunnellers lie entombed after dying during brutal underground warfare. For WWI historians, it's the "holy grail"."
Download or read book Canadian Tunnelling written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Geotechnical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North American Tunneling 1988 written by Levent Ozdemir and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grouped into six sections, the papers in this volume address a wide range of issues on the challenges and opportunities facing underground construction, and the use of underground space.
Download or read book The Canadians in France 1915 1918 written by Harwood Elmes Robert Steele and published by London : T. Fisher Unwin. This book was released on 1920 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin of the Canadian Mining Institute written by Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914 1919 written by G.W.L. Nicholson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.
Download or read book Supporting Tunnelling Operations in the Great War written by Damien Finlayson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few soldiers on the Western Front had heard of the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company, even after it had been renamed the Alphabet Company by an AIF wag. Yet many knew the work of this tiny unit which numbered fewer than 300 at full strength. Despite its small size, the Alphabet Companys influence was enormous and spanned the entire British sector of the Western Front, from the North Sea to the Somme.This is the story of the Alphabeticals who, led by Major Victor Morse, DSO, operated and maintained pumps, generators, ventilation fans, drilling equipment and other ingenious devices in extreme circumstances. Given the horrendous conditions in which the troops lived and fought, this equipment was desperately needed, as were the men who operated it in the same, often nightmarish setting.This is the first account of the dynamic little unit that was the Alphabet Company, a unit that has been neglected by history for a century. It is the story of the men, their machinery and the extraordinary grit they displayed in performing some of the most difficult tasks in a war noted for the horrific conditions in which it was waged. They do not deserve to be forgotten.
Download or read book Tunnel Warfare written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Tunnel Warfare Tunnel warfare is using tunnels and other underground cavities in war. It often includes the construction of underground facilities in order to attack or defend, and the use of existing natural caves and artificial underground facilities for military purposes. Tunnels can be used to undermine fortifications and slip into enemy territory for a surprise attack, while it can strengthen a defense by creating the possibility of ambush, counterattack and the ability to transfer troops from one portion of the battleground to another unseen and protected. Also, tunnels can serve as shelter from enemy attack. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Tunnel warfare Chapter 2: Trench warfare Chapter 3: Lochnagar mine Chapter 4: Siege of Luxembourg (1684) Chapter 5: Sapping Chapter 6: Tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers Chapter 7: Hohenzollern Redoubt action Chapter 8: Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917) Chapter 9: 175th Tunnelling Company Chapter 10: 171st Tunnelling Company (II) Answering the public top questions about tunnel warfare. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Tunnel Warfare.
Download or read book Bullets Bombs and Bayonets written by Edward N. Ross and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bullets, Bombs, and Bayonets draws attention to a significant part of Canadian military history, a period in which almost an entire generation of young men never returned from the battlefields of Europe. In 2017 Canada commemorates the 100th year of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The triumphant conquering of Vimy by the Canadian Corps in April 1917, was considered a defining moment in Canada's rise to nationhood. Equally significant but much less publicized was the Canadian victory at Passchendaele in the fall of 1917. It was there that more than 4,000 Canadian soldiers died, and almost 12,000 wounded. The Battle of Passchendaele will be forever remembered as a colossal slaughter in the mud of Flanders fields. Bullets, Bombs, and Bayonets acknowledges those members of the 43rd Battalion who fought and died in the Ypres Salient, in the name of freedom.
Download or read book FDI Qualities Review of Canada Accelerating Inclusive and Sustainable Growth written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides an assessment of how foreign direct investment (FDI) contributes to Canada’s sustainable development, particularly in the areas of trade, productivity and innovation employment, job quality and skills, diversity and inclusion, and the low-carbon transition. It provides initial policy considerations on how investment promotion and facilitation can improve such impacts.
