Damien Finlayson

About The Author

Damien Finlayson is an amateur military historian with a special interest in the First World War. Damien is a keen scholar of the First World War and a member of the Western Front Association. His articles on the Australian tunnelling companies have appeared in several journals throughout Australia.

Books by Damien Finlayson

The Lightning Keepers

The AIF's Alphabet Company in the Great War

By Damien Finlayson
Few soldiers on the Western Front had heard of the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company, even after it had been renamed the ‘Alphabet Company’ by an AIF wag. Yet many knew the work of this tiny unit which numbered fewer than 300 at full strength. Despite its small size, ...
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Crumps and Camouflets

Australian Tunnelling Companies on the Western Front

By Damien Finlayson
Below the shattered ground that separated the British and German infantry on the Western Front in World War I, an unseen and largely unknown war was raging, fought by miners, 'tunnellers' as they were known. They knew at any moment their lives could be extinguished without warning by hundreds of ...
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