Today we did a tour of the tunnels at Vimy ridge, guided by one of the Canadian volunteers (a lady called Abigail), who come here to work and show tourists around for a few months every year. We went through a tunnel that took 950 Canadian soldiers directly into battle.
They were trying to win the battle to control the high ground on the ridge that was protected by the Germans. The ridge wasn’t far from the tunnel at all. The Canadian soldiers planned their attack for months and the battle started in April of 1917.
The underground tunnels we saw connected all the trenches and were used for communication but also to move soldiers into position. After that, we drove to Arras to do a tour of Carrier Wellington which is the Wellington tunnels dug under the town.
It was dug out by 300 NZ miners, so an important part of NZ history. Exit 10 was one of the tunnels they had to use to go into battle and we saw this when we were under the ground. They also named some of the tunnels after places in New Zealand like, Blenheim, Dunedin, Christchurch and Auckland.
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