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Article: First World War tunnels to surrender their secrets
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- August 26, 2007
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AS BATTLE raged across the fields of Flanders, British soldiers
found brief respite from the horrors of the First World War in
"underground towns" far below the mud and gore. Now, more than 90
years after the armies left and the extraordinary networks of tunnels
were flooded, the task of finally revealing their secrets has begun.
The prize, archaeologists and historians believe, is an
unprecedented insight into the lives of British troops on the Western
Front.
They believe that, because of the absence of light and oxygen in
the flooded tunnels, possessions, such as beds, weapons, helmets,
clothing and even newspapers, will have been preserved and will be
found exactly as they were left in ...