On 7 June 1917, British forces detonated 19 huge mines beneath German positions on Messines Ridge after almost two years of secret tunnelling. Combined with a massive artillery barrage and a ...

The centenary of the Battle of Messines Ridge, where unionist and nationalist soldiers from Ireland fought side by side in the trenches, is to be marked by a joint UK-Irish ceremony. The event will ...

On June 7, 1917, British forces detonated 19 enormous mines beneath German positions at Messines Ridge in Belgium, opening one of the most successful Allied offensives of the First World War. The ...

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Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 278th installment in the series. The abject failure of the Nivelle Offensive in April 1917 triggered ...

The battle of Wijtschate-Messines in the first World War in June 1917 was the first act in what became known as the third battle of Ypres, a crucial prelude to the main summer offensive on the Ypres ...

"Gentlemen, I don't know whether we are going to make history tomorrow, but at any rate we shall change geography" and at 3.10am, on 7 June 1917, Major-General Harington's press briefing became ...

Survivors of the war describe the extraordinary feats of military engineering - and the deadly cost to German soldiers - involved in exploding huge mines at the Messines Ridge. Show more Reaching 1917 ...