Ontario Community Newspapers

Oshawa Daily Times, 30 Dec 1927, p. 9

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Cir wi fi fl) tg [jib ada nl A im IL fe a af di {id Nt AN Wi gn NEY io a Ridge, by Canadian engineers working under the Can. adian Battlefields Memorial Commission, has brought to light the only section of the old battlefields intact, The dis- cnvery was made in October, and now tourists can go through D "ie br of the famous Grange Tunnel at Vimy I all the labrynth of underground works prepared for the great push at Vimy in April, 1917, Everything has been left as it was, even to the unused bombs, and scribbled and carved names and regimental crests. The pictures on this page, all new, show some of the spots that will be remembered by those who were in the tunnel about eleven years ago, They are: 1---Special road constructed to allow easy access to the tunnel, 2 and 3--Entrance to a vast German tunnel discovered while work was proceeding on the Grange tunnel, The Ger- mans had evidently been working with the same idea in mind as that the Canadians carried through to brilliant success, 4 and 5--Entrances to Grange tunnel, 6--A piece of reconstructed British front line, 7--A near thing! German 5.9 shell stuck its nose throug) the iunnel after penetrating 13 teet of earth, and failed to ex- plode. It has been emptied and propped up. 8---Writings on the wall. On the tombstone-like projec: tion is "No, 814732, Pte, C. C. Keen, R.C.R,, A Co'y., 30 June, 191 7." Below the maple leaf is '"49th----London to 9--A trolley way down to a magazine, 10--G. H. Q.--100 feet underground. 11--Near surface, Man on .ight is coming from Duffield nd Grange craters. 12--Where the "Five Ways" meet. 13--One of the old notice boards. MY RIDG

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