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"""A well written account of one of the specialist tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers; the 'Cornish Miners Battalion', who put themselves at risk every day by burrowing beneath the earth on the Western Front to undermine the enemy's positions. This is a vivid and well researched unit history of men who were recruited from the tin mines of Cornwall to play their part below the trenches and no-man's-land, often in appalling conditions, as they sought to give an advantage to their infantry brothers fighting above them. Highly recommended.""-- ""The Great War Magazine"""

""A well written account of one of the specialist tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers; the 'Cornish Miners Battalion', who put themselves at risk every day by burrowing beneath the earth on the Western Front to undermine the enemy's positions. This is a vivid and well researched unit history of men who were recruited from the tin mines of Cornwall to play their part below the trenches and no-man's-land, often in appalling conditions, as they sought to give an advantage to their infantry brothers fighting above them. Highly recommended.""-- ""The Great War Magazine""

A well written account of one of the specialist tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers; the 'Cornish Miners Battalion', who put themselves at risk every day by burrowing beneath the earth on the Western Front to undermine the enemy's positions. This is a vivid and well researched unit history of men who were recruited from the tin mines of Cornwall to play their part below the trenches and no-man's-land, often in appalling conditions, as they sought to give an advantage to their infantry brothers fighting above them. Highly recommended. --The Great War Magazine

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Robert K Johns is a retired businessman who has spent many years working closely with military authorities worldwide, undertaking many research projects on their behalf. He was born in Cornwall and comes from a long line of underground tin miners. On discovering that his grandfather had been a a tunneller in the Great War, Robert researched extensively into his life, and using many authenticated records and archives, he has traced the history of 251 Tunnelling Company from its establishment in Cornwall to demobilisation. He is currently working on another book looking at the individual stories of some of these men.

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