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Explanation: On detached duty as Sapper and Miner Aug. 31, 1864
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Two companies of sappers and miners arrived at the bank of the Jumna, and there halted
The Subahdar in command of the sappers and miners presented himself at the audience
For sapeur-mineur, my WWII military dictionary (Fr-En, En-Fr) gives "engineer soldier, sapper".
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Mining Engineers
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Mark Solomon Spain Local time: 17:48 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 4
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sappers and miners
Explanation: On detached duty as Sapper and Miner Aug. 31, 1864
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Two companies of sappers and miners arrived at the bank of the Jumna, and there halted
The Subahdar in command of the sappers and miners presented himself at the audience
Bib Native speaker of: French PRO pts in category: 8
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(military) tunnellers, tunnelling engineers
Explanation: Though miners were extensively drafted into the Royal Engineers in WWI, it was to dig tunnels, and reference to "tunnelling" appears to be more frequent to "mining" in this context. In addition, "mining" is associated with Royal Engineers mine-laying operations.
Profusely illustrated by scores of diagrams and photographs, it gives a full picture of military mining in 1914-18 both in theory and practice. Among the sectors examined where MINING WARFARE was most intense were Hill 60 in the Ypres Salient, the Cuinchy brickstacks, in the industrial area around Givenchy; Vimy Ridge; the tunnels beneath Arras, where the engineers made use of existing ancient catacombs; the Somme, and, above all, perhaps, the 21 gigantic mines whose simultaneous explosion heralded the successful British offensive at Messines in June 1917.
[http://www.naval-military-press.co.uk/books/titles/7311.htm]
As war on the Western Front assumed siege conditions, mining operations began and the Royal Engineers organised specialist TUNNELLING units. ... www.1914-1918.net/cre.htm
organisation for carrying out sapping, mining and TUNNELLING operations, although most men of the Royal Engineers received some training in the subject. ... www.1914-1918.net/tunnelcoyre.htm
1115 Sergeant James Herbert Spencer - 1st Battalion The Monmouthshire Regiment, attached 171st TUNNELLING Company Royal Engineers ... www.rrw.org.uk/remember/j_spencer.htm
Royal Engineers Royal Engineers - RSME - History. ... In 1940 an Experimental TUNNELLING Section was formed and in 1941 Assault Engineer and Bomb Disposal ... www.army.mod.uk/royalengineers/org/rsme/history
1st (Cheshire) Field Company, Royal Engineers 170th TUNNELLING Company, Royal ... 172nd TUNNELLING Company, Royal Engineers 173rd TUNNELLING Company ... www.firstworldwar.com/source/haigsteloidespatch.htm
xxxBourth Local time: 17:48 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 136
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