War Diaries Talk

Miners

  • Jan_Greenslade by Jan_Greenslade

    There is a tag for working parties but not for mining parties or their work. As this was such a vital part of operations how should I tag them as neither working parties nor 'other' seem adequate?

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  • HeatherC by HeatherC moderator

    Hi Jan

    Good question. I agree with you that none of the existing tags seem adequate for this task. I assume we are talking here about the men who were tunnelling under the German lines to lay the mines often blown at the start of an attack? I know we've said before that we can't tag everything but as you say this was a vital (and I think very interesting) part of Operations so it might be a case for a tag of its own? In the meantime although it's not very satisfactory I suggest you use other and hashtag "mine" or "mining" so the entries can be found again?

    Heather

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  • Jan_Greenslade by Jan_Greenslade

    Heather, regarding miners casualties - are they counted as combat or non-combat? Regards, Jan

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  • HeatherC by HeatherC moderator

    Good question and I'm not really sure. I suppose it depends exactly how they died. Got any example pages?

    Edit - never mind I found this one http://talk.operationwardiary.org/#/subjects/AWD0001dde

    I think unless it gives the circumstances of how they were injured and it is obviously non-combat - e.g. an accident, then you have to assume that "casualties wounded" means in combat.

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  • Jan_Greenslade by Jan_Greenslade

    Thank you Heather, so far no enlargement of injuries noted as to where/when/how, so will assume combat.

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