Carriere Wellington

The Carriere Wellington is a museum in Arras, northern France. It is called after a former underground quarry that have emerge as part of a community of tunnels used by forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth inside the path of the 1st World War. Opened in March 2008, the museum commemorates the infantrymen who constructed the tunnels and fought inside the Battle of Arras in 1917. From the Middle Ages through to the 19th century, the chalk beds under Arras had been extensively quarried to deliver stone for the towns houses.

The quarries fell into disuse with the resource of the start of the 20th century. In 1916, in the route of the 1st World War, the British forces controlling Arras determined to re use the underground quarries to aid a planned offensive in competition to the Germans, whose trenches ran through what in the propose time are the Japanese suburbs of the town. The quarries have been to be related up absolutely so they will be used each as shelters from the incessant German shelling and as a way of conveying troops to the the front in secrecy and protection.