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Since 1998 The Durand Group - a voluntary association dedicated to researching and investigating subterranean military features - has been recording and interpreting the underground conflict on - and under - the Western Front during the First World War. This includes the disarming of live mine charges left over from the conflict, many of which exist in deep tunnels below the old battlefields.
The Durand Group's remit is to disseminate this information to the general public. To this end we hope that you can support the Group in their endeavours. Multimedia reports of most of their excavations are available on Amazon, eBay and the Fougasse Films website. Funds raised from sales go directly to supporting further excavations, talks, displays and publications.
What you are seeing are members of the Durand Group, in 2003, recording the graffiti and carvings in Goodman Subway - a communication tunnel stretching back from the Vimy Ridge battleground towards the village of Neuville St Vaast behind the front lines. The Group had to contend with four substantial blockages in their seven year investigation as the tunnel precariously passed under the A26 Calais to Paris motorway. It still does!
