Battle of Messines, Belgium, 1917
At 3.10 a.m. the start of the battle was signalled by the explosion of nineteen huge mines, the largest containing 96,000 lbs of amonal, under the ridge which had been pounded by 3.5 million shells. 9 RWF reached its objective towards the eastern end of the ridge and took eighty prisoners. Subsequent shellfire cost it 121 casualties
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