page_title: 250th Tunnelling Company
section_title: Unit history
hierarchical_section_title: 250th Tunnelling Company / Unit history
caption_attribution_description: English: Plan of the mines at Hollandscheschur Farm, part of the mines placed by the tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers in the Battle of Messines (1917). This drawing is based on the plans published in Roger Lampaert, De Mijnenoorlog in Vlaanderen 1914–1918, Roesbrugge/Belgium (Drukkerij Schoonaert) 1989.
context_page_description: The 250th Tunnelling Company was one of the tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers created by the British Army during World War I. The tunnelling units were occupied in offensive and defensive mining involving the placing and maintaining of mines under enemy lines, as well as other underground work such as the construction of deep dugouts for troop accommodation, the digging of subways, saps, cable trenches and underground chambers for signals and medical services.
context_section_description: 250th Tunnelling Company was formed in Rouen in October 1915. It was then moved into the Ypres Salient, where it relieved 177th Tunnelling Company, which at that time was stationed in a wide area facing Wijtschate. From May 1916 until December 1918 the company served under Reserve (later Fifth) Army.
caption: Plan for the British deep mine at Hollandscheschur Farm with its three chambers
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