Oliver William BOWDLER - Tunneller ? BBC documentary (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Sunday, May 04, 2014, 23:58 (3851 days ago) @ JaneyH

Hi Jane,
glad the rugby was enjoyable, that's the main thing !

Yes I agree it's possible Oliver's story may have been embellished to include tunnelling, that does sounds more "daring-do" than digging trenches, altho both were essential of course. However please don't discount it completely; the Tunnelling Companies were a real and very important part of the trench War, and the British Army deliberately searched-out ex-miners within the Army to transfer into the new Tunnelling Companies wherever possible. Please do take a look at the prior thread I included above, you'll see that apart from mending brokenlinks to more related forum threads, I've also added the Youtube link to a very interesting BBC documentary on the subject, strongly recommended viewing. Here's the Tunnelling thread link
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=41028

Happy Hunting with your trawl thro' the Medal Cards, at least it's not an overly common surname, if you do find anything please tell us, thanks and good luck !