Battle of Cambrai, fought on 20th November, 1917, is famous in British annals as a great tank victory. But, for the Corps, it has another claim to fame; as the birthday of a Sapper war-baby, about which historians have hitherto said little but which played a substantial part in the Cambrai success and an even greater part in the victories of 1918 which brought the first World War to an end.
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