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A SERIES of talks this month will complement the Ballaarat Mechanics\u2019 Institute\u2019s current exhibition Ballarat Anzacs<\/em> in the Heritage Reading Room.<\/p>\n

A Lending Library presentation from historian and Mining Mud & Medals<\/em> project lead Yvon Davis will discuss the region\u2019s World War One tunnellers on Thursday, 14 April at 11am.<\/p>\n

\u201cMining and digging tunnels under the enemy in World War One was fraught with danger, in often cramped conditions, with a possibility of being discovered by the enemy, getting killed by a collapsing tunnel, or worst of all, for an explosion to go off in the tunnel,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBallarat, Daylesford, Creswick, and Clunes all had Schools of Mines and an amazing mining history, however little seemed to be known about the tunnellers, that often trained [there].<\/p>\n

\u201cThese tunnellers who formed the mining companies in World War One were mining engineers, geologists, miners, carpenters who were able to make the supports within the tunnels, and electricians, to supply power and lights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Davis will speak about particular tunnellers like Major Lesley Jack Coulter. In the Lydiard Street Christ Church Cathedral, he\u2019s acknowledged on a brass plaque as a mining engineer.<\/p>\n

A graduate of the Ballarat School of Mines, Major Coulter studied mining management, chemistry, and drawing.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeslie Coulter received a Distinguished Service Order \u2018for conspicuous gallantry during operations\u2019,\u201d Ms Davis said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn 28 June, 1917, he was involved in \u2018a little stunt to blow up some enemy saps on Hill 70, near Loos\u2019 when he was shot and killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was aged 26 and buried at Hersin Communal Cemetery in France.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mining Mud & Medals<\/em> book will be available for purchase at the presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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