Bibliography



Unpublished sources


Public Records Office, Kew

WO Series

95/268-538      Second Army.

Second Army Troops

95/244             Feb 1915 - June 1919. 172 Tunnelling Coy. R.E.

95/335        Feb. 1915 - May. 1919. 171 Tunnelling Coy. R.E.

95/335        Feb. 1915 - June. 1919. 173 Tunnelling Coy. R.E.

95/336        Oct. 1915 -  Jan. 1919. 184 Tunnelling Coy. R.E.

95/336        Jan. 1916 -  Feb. 1919. 3 Canadian Coy. R.E.

95/407      New Zealand Tunnelling coy. R.E.

106/346 to 349    Intelligence summaries.

66th  Division.

95/3125    Aug. 1915- Jan 1919. Commander, R.E.

Other unpublished sources

Jones, S. (2000).  Bibliography of published works on tunnelling during 1914-1918.

Published sources


Official Histories

Brigadier-General Edmonds, Sir J. E. (1927). Military Operations: France and Belgium. Vol. 1. 1915. London. Macmillan.

Brigadier-General Edmonds, Sir J. E. (1932). Military Operations: France and Belgium. Vol. 1. 1916. London. Macmillan.

Brigadier-General Edmonds, Sir J. E. (1948). Military Operations: France and Belgium. Vol. 2. 1917. London. H.M.S.O.

Books

Ashworth, T. (1980). Trench Warfare: 1914-1918. London. Macmillan.

Barrie, A. (1961). War Underground. London. Tom Donovan.

Cave, N. (1998). Hill 60: Ypres. Barnsley. Leo Cooper.

Capt. Graham, H. W. (1927). The Life of a Tunnelling Company. Hexham. J. Catherall (printer). Private printing.

Capt. Grant Grieve, W and Newman, B. (1936). Tunnellers. London. Herbert Jenkins.

Griffith, P. (1994). Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army's Art of Attack 1916-18. New Haven and London. Yale University Press.

Liddell Hart, B. (1930-this edition-1972). History of the First World War. London. Pan Books.

Middlebrook, M. (1971). The First Day on the Somme. London. Allen Lane.

Oldham, P. (1998). Messines: Messines-Wytschaete-St Eloi. Barnsley. Leo Cooper.

Terraine, J. (1982). White Heat: The New Warfare 1914-18. London. Leo Cooper.

Journals

Professor David Branagan, 'The Australian Mining Corps in World War 1', Bulletin Proceeding Australian Institute of Mining. Mineralogy. and Metallurgy, Vol. 292. No. 9. December 1987.

Bryan Frayling, 'Tunnellers', Royal Engineers Journal, Vol. 102. No. 2. August 1988.

Captain W. B. R. King, 'Geological Work On The Western Front', The Geographical Journal, Vol. 54. No. 4. October 1919.

Brigadier-General J. A. C. Pennycuick, 'Hill 60 and the Mines at Messines', Royal Engineers Journal, Vol. 79. December 1965.

Lieutenant-Colonel E. P. F. Rose, 'Geology in War' Royal Engineers Journal, Vol. 92. June 1978.

Captain H. D. Trounce, 'Work of Sappers and Miners in the Great War - Fighting Under the Ground', Scribners Magazine, Vol. 64. July-December 1918.

Video documentaries


Dir. Mike Fox. Foxy Films and Parapet productions. The Underground War. Channel 4. (1998).

Internet resources


www.wlu.ca/~wwwmsds/vol1n12miningboire.htm
The Underground war: Military Mining Operations in support of the attack on Vimy Ridge, 9 April 1917. Major Michael Boire.


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