I see the 175th Tunnelling Co. dug the mine access tunnels under Hill 60. With the mine placed there and a series of other mines eventually detonated by the Australian and other Tunnelling cos. in 1917, they blew up the Messines Ridge with the Germans on it. Quite a significant event in the war - 'the mines of Messines'; the detonations were quite audible in London apparently.
There is an Australian movie about that, called 'Beneath Hill 60'
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