In some cases the tunnelling company were able to destroy his galleries by camouflets when they were actually being worked, and thus bury the tunnellers and their spoiling parties.
Though warning might have been given by the tunnellers that a mine was to be expected, yet the explosion always appeared to come as a surprise.
It must be remembered that the tunnellerswere not highly trained soldiers in their early manhood, but professional miners, often men of middle age, who had in many cases come to France straight from the pits at home.
The French tunnellers had been withdrawn, leaving only old French Territorials to man the listening galleries.
Later, when heavy calls were made upon the German troops to sustain the fighting on the Somme, they were compelled to relax their efforts in this sector, with the result that the British tunnellers established a marked superiority over them.
The Germans also adopted the same tactics, and continuous warfare between the tunnellers of both sides raged underground.
The tunnellers who listen in these galleries are equipped with instruments by which the enemy can be heard working.
In this sector it was therefore necessary to establish a carefully-organised system of spoiling parties to keep pace with the output of the tunnellers and pioneers.
It was therefore decided to reinforce the tunnellers by attaching to them infantry who in civil life had been skilled miners.
On the 12th and 20th August the French tunnellers were successful in destroying sections of the enemy's trenches with mines, but on the latter date the mine also did considerable damage to the British trenches.
Friends were made with the artillery forward observation officers and men, and the tunnellers on our front became companions in distress.
Australian tunnellers in Marshall Walk had not boasted idly when they told us last November that their mine under Hill 60 would one day stagger humanity.
Moore and the Battalion Tunnellers were once more hard at work helping the R.
The tunnellers of the 171st Company had laboured unceasingly to cut a new gallery.
Wales did well that day, and the Welsh miners, who had already proved themselves as great diggers and great tunnellers and very brave men, showed themselves cool and fearless in the assault.
In vaults dug into the sides of the passages were groups of tunnellers and other men half screened by blanket curtains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tunnellers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
