As I got near the Turkish trenches the enemy shell and machine gun fire became so intense, with shells bursting all around, that I and several others decided to stop in a large shell or mine crater for a few minutes till the shelling eased somewhat.
12.
It was reprinted in 1972 with a 70-page summary of the battle, contributed by Colonel Howard Green, MC . The 1972 version included photos of the battlefield taken in 1971, including the Lochnagar mine crater, Delville Wood and the Butte de Warlencourt.
13.
Although the crater created in Hooge by the British mine on 19 July 1915 was filled in after the war as untenable and the repository of hundreds of bodies, several other large mine craters that were created over the course of the fighting can still be seen.
14.
The salient was about wide and lay on a slight slope down to and had two outcrops, the Kink on the right and Hussar Horn on the left . The area was overlooked from the Redoubt, by and from several mine craters in no man's land.
15.
Beneath the cemetery grounds opposite the " Hooge Crater Museum " are the remains of a deep dugout constructed by 177th Tunnelling Company beneath the Menin Road in the centre of Hooge, occupying the space in between 175th TC's July 1915 mine crater and the stables of the destroyed Ch�teau de Hooge.
16.
In addition to 182nd Tunnelling Company, also St Eloi in April 1916 where mines had so altered and damaged the landscape as to render occupation of the mine craters by the infantry all but impossible , led to the decision to remove offensive mining from the central sector allocated to the Canadian Corps at Vimy Ridge.
17.
Their reports and the experience of the Canadians at St Eloi in April 1916 where mines had so altered and damaged the landscape as to render occupation of the mine craters by the infantry all but impossible , led to the decision to remove offensive mining from the central sector allocated to the Canadian Corps at Vimy Ridge.
18.
Their reports and the experience of the Canadians at The Actions of St Eloi Craters in April 1916, where mines had so altered and damaged the landscape as to render occupation of the mine craters by the infantry all but impossible, led to the decision to remove offensive mining from the central sector allocated to the Canadian Corps at Vimy Ridge.
19.
172nd Tunnelling Company stayed near Vimy and remained active in the area in preparation for the Battle of Vimy Ridge ( 9 12 April 1917 ), together with St Eloi in April 1916 where mines had so altered and damaged the landscape as to render occupation of the mine craters by the infantry all but impossible , led to the decision to remove offensive mining from the central sector allocated to the Canadian Corps at Vimy Ridge.
