- Men of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company become the first New Zealanders to arrive on the Western Front. They would construct an elaborate system of tunnels near Arras that housed 20,000 New Zealand troops. Inside the amazing cave city that housed 25,000 Allied troops under German noses in WWI
- German forces gain a footing on Hill 295, but fail in their attack on the 12-mile front west of Meuse in the Battle of Verdun
9 April 1916
