Thread: Beneath Hill 60

well tonight I finally got to watch the show I taped, under hill 60. About the !st Australian tunnelling company in WW1. I thought I had run out of tears, apparently not. I'd like to say more, but I can't, Bob

Originally Posted by bob10

well tonight I finally got to watch the show I taped, under hill 60. About the !st Australian tunnelling company in WW1. I thought I had run out of tears, apparently not. I'd like to say more, but I can't, Bob

My grandfather's first unit in France was 4th. Division Headquarters Tunnelling Company. He never spoke of it and by the time of Battle of Messines he was in 52 Battalion.

Hill 60 was in 3 Div lines.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Hill 60 was in 3 Div lines.

I meant he never spoke about tunnelling. He did have a lot to say about gas which he reckoned was a totally unacceptable method of warfare that caused much prolonged pain and suffering and kept on killing for years and years after being gassed. He said his old comrades died off like flies in the 1920'-30's from the afteraffects of gas.

i really want to see this one i think i will go and rent it next week

its worth it.

I to have just watched it to.
How lucky we are to get into a hot shower, hot food whenever we feel the need, even a hot cuppa.
It's all owed to the men & women of the war efforts.

I have my grandfather's dossier from WW1.
He went to Gallipoli with the 21st Battalion, his troopship (Southland) torpedoed along the way, off the Greek Isles.
Then after Gallipoli he transfered into 2nd Pioneer Battalion and off to France for three years, with several transfers in and out of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company.
Not the best way to spend four of the early years of life, then the legacies of it, gas, mud, bomblasts, trauma and death stayed with him forever!