Mining at Messines Ridge, Belgium, World War I mb-code 1237897 Poulterer's shop in Clare Market

Poulterer's shop in Clare Market

the giant transformed into a dragon

Tomb of the Earl of Pembroke and his wife

9th December 1974

Mining at Messines Ridge, Belgium, World War I mb-code 1237897 Poulterer's shop in Clare MarketMining at Messines Ridge, Belgium, World War I, 1914 1918. The Battle of Messines was launched on June 7, 1917 by British General Herbert Plumer's Second Army. The attack began with the simultaneous detonation of 19 huge mines in shafts dug beneath the German lines. The battle was an Allied success and marked the first large scale operation in which casualties sustained by the attacking forces were actually less than those suffered by the defenders.