At 16:56 27/09/05 +0100, Iain Wright wrote:
>In The Times last Saturday (24th) there was a Focus Report on "Travel
West". On page 11 there is a photo captioned "Soldiers remove tin extacted
from a Cornish mines reopened during the Second World War.......". I
understand from the paper that the photo is dated 13th August 1942 and
depicts the No1 Tunnelling Company of the Canadian Army.
Iain,
Canadian Army engineers were employed on trial development work on behalf
of the Home Ore Department in 1942. Some of that work was carried out in
North Devon at the Florence Mine from June 1942, where the objective was
manganese rich iron ores. The engineers were withdrawn for 'military
reasons' - possible the Dieppe landing (19 August) although, if that was
the case, they did not spend long on the job (Groves, 'Wartime
investigations into haematite and manganese ore resources of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland', Mininstry of Supply Monogram 20-703, 1952).
Peter
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