War Miners: The Covert Mission Beneath Arras on SBS and SBS on Demand – At a war council in 1916, the French and British approved a top-secret mission requiring extensive manpower.
Four-hundred New Zealand miners, who had volunteered for the British Army, were sent to Arras, France.
Their orders: to dig tunnels connecting the old quarries in preparation for a surprise attack against German forces. Major John Evelyn Duigan led this unique company of men, aged 30 to 50, who had travelled across the planet to answer the call of a distant land. If their mission succeeded, they would save the lives of many soldiers.
War Miners: The Covert Mission Beneath Arras on SBS and SBS on Demand / Premiere – Saturday 22 March at 5.30pm
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