Underground warfare

Men working a mine-drill in a gallery, making a bore-hole for a camoflaut or secondary chamber, intended to cause the enemy work to fall in. Underground mines became a major feature of warfare during World War I with miners and tunnel-workers recruited from Britain and France to work as sappers in the tunnels

Cause Drill Feature Intended Mines Pick Pickax Pickaxe Recruited Sapper Sappers Secondary Tunnelling Tunnels

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