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176th Tunnelling Company
Royal Engineers

Major Headquarters

Locations

Dates

France and Flanders

War Office

Approval to raise the unit with 5 officers and 269 men

19 Feb 1915

First Army

Company formed at Lestrem under the command of Captain E.M. Momber, R.E.

Apr 1915

First Army

Givenchy

Jun 1915

First Army

Loos

25 Sep – 5 Oct 1915

First Army

Arras Sector (Double Crassiers

1916

Canadian Corps

Vimy

9-14 Apr 1917

Canadian Corps

Arleux

28-29 Apr 1917

XIII Corps

Scarpe

3-4 May 1917

XIII Corps

Hill 70

15-25 Aug 1917

XIII Corps

Arras

28 Mar 1918

First Army

Scarpe

26-30 Aug 1918

VIII Corps

Pursuit to Mons

28 Sep – 11 Nov 1918

REFERENCES:

1. Battle Honours of the Royal Engineers. The Royal Engineers Journal. The Institution of Royal Engineers, 1925-1932.

2. BARRIE, A. War Underground: The Tunnellers of The Great War. Tom Donovan Publishing Limited, London, 1993.

3. GRIEVE, W.G. and NEWMAN, B. Tunnellers: The Story of the Tunnelling Companies, Royal Engineers, during the World War. Herbert Jenkins Limited, London, 1936.