As well as digging tunnels and caverns, the men of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company carried out various engineering and labouring tasks above ground. This photograph shows tunnellers laying mines in a road near Arras, France, on 17 July 1918. As this road crossed a stream, its destruction would hamper the German advance. Later in 1918, as the tide of the war turned in the Allies' favour, the tunnellers showed their versatility by building a series of temporary bridges.
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