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WW1 - British Royal Engineers & tunnelers
Tunnel Warfare - WW1 > .
Peter Barton: Was the tunnellers' secret war the most barbaric of WW1? > .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zggykqt
The Tunnelling Companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnelling_companies_of_the_Royal_Engineers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zggykqt
Explosives - WW1 Uncut - BBC > .
The Somme Secret Tunnel Wars BBC full documentary 2013 > .
WWI - Mining Activity On the British Front 220737-02
WWI - Mining Activity On the British Front]
Intertitle: “A party of tunnellers with stores & explosives are taken to an advanced post near the firing line in motor lorries.” Soldiers loading two trucks w/ cases / boxes & planks & wood for cribbing. Troops board trucks & leave. Men out of trucks at destination & wave to camera as they march past. Unload & carry crates.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=4s
1 “Entering the communication trenches.” Soldiers carrying crates singly & two w/ a pole down into trench.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=1m34s
2 “At the shaft head. A man equipped w/ oxygen
apparatus reports...no danger from gas...” He climbs out of shaft wearing breathing equipment.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=1m54s
3 “Looking up the incline shaft from. Men descending w/ material.” Men come down; others entering w/ equipment & w/ timbers. Inside shaft, men fill sacks; passing them up. Moving timbers in for cribbing.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=2m14s
3b Picking and timbering at the gallery face.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=3m5s
4 “An officer listening underground to the sound of German countermining. An order is given to commence charging the mine.” Cases of explosives are handed down; lowered on winch & carried along tunnel. Sacks put down to prevent back blast. Men leave mine, CU connecting detonator in open trench.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=3m24s
4b Preparing the changer and laying the charge of explosives
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=3m53s
4c Tamping or stemming the charge with earth-filled sacks to prevent back blast
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=4m5s
4d Work finished, the officer orders all the men out of the mines
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=4m16s
4e Testing the circuit and connecting the electric leads
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=4m37s
4f Connecting the exploder
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=4m43s
5 “Before the explosion the infantry take cover in a neighbouring crater on the Hohenzollern Redoubt.” Soldiers w/ rifles hurry down hillside.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=5m12s
5b Officer checks watch; pushes plunger.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=5m20s
5c huge explosion under German trenches w/ barbed wire in FG. Secondary explosions.
6 Infantry, some Scottish in kilts run across open ground. Troops in trenches setting up machine gun, pan around barren landscape.
7 CU as bullets fed thru machine gun. GOOD. Pan round barren deeply cratered landscape w/ soldiers inspecting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-1XBaEcRtg
Meet the man with a WW1 trench in his back garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IitKjI4NA_g
World War 1 in Color
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgeJ6bGP6EDlgg1EB1_CDrvvUdcI2mjsr
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ww1+royal+engineers
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMU2-UiexaQ_pwpxxgQUdat
WWI videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVs1F3x3eOs
Technology and Warfare in World War 1 - tgw >> .
The Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers expanded dramatically in size to support Canada's war effort. On August 31, 1939, the Permanent Force engineers included 50 officers (with 14 seconded to other branches of the Canadian Army) and 323 other ranks; the maximum size of the Corps was reached in 1944, when it included 210 officers and 6283 other ranks.
In keeping with British Army practice, company-sized units in the two armoured divisions were called "squadrons" following cavalry terminology. Units were deployed in Canada and Europe.
US Combat Engineers
British Royal Engineers
Explosives WW1 ..
Explosives WW1 ..
http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/allied/royalengineers.php
The war of 1914-1918 relied on engineering. Without engineers there would have been no supply to the armies, because the RE's maintained the railways, roads, water supply, bridges and transport. RE's also operated the railways and inland waterways. There would have been no communications, because the RE's maintained the telephones, wireless and other signalling equipment. There would have been little cover for the infantry and no positions for the artillery, because the RE's designed and built the front-line fortifications. It fell to the technically skilled RE's to develop responses to chemical and underground warfare. And finally, without the RE's the infantry and artillery would have soon been powerless, as they maintained the guns and other weapons. Little wonder that the Royal Engineers grew into a large and complex organisation.
The war of 1914-1918 relied on engineering. Without engineers there would have been no supply to the armies, because the RE's maintained the railways, roads, water supply, bridges and transport. RE's also operated the railways and inland waterways. There would have been no communications, because the RE's maintained the telephones, wireless and other signalling equipment. There would have been little cover for the infantry and no positions for the artillery, because the RE's designed and built the front-line fortifications. It fell to the technically skilled RE's to develop responses to chemical and underground warfare. And finally, without the RE's the infantry and artillery would have soon been powerless, as they maintained the guns and other weapons. Little wonder that the Royal Engineers grew into a large and complex organisation.
The Battle of Messines (7–14 June 1917) was an attack by the British Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer), on the Western Front, near the village of Messines (now Mesen) in West Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War.
The battle began with the detonation of 19 mines beneath the German front position, which devastated it and left 19 large craters. A creeping barrage, 700 yd (640 m) deep began and protected the British troops as they secured the ridge with support from tanks, cavalry patrols and aircraft. The effect of the British mines, barrages and bombardments was improved by advances in artillery survey, flash spotting and centralised control of artillery from the Second Army headquarters. British attacks from 8 to 14 June advanced the front line beyond the former German Sehnenstellung (Chord Position, the Oosttaverne Line to the British). The battle was a prelude to the much larger Third Battle of Ypres, the preliminary bombardment for which began on 11 July 1917.
Manpower: how big was the RE?
On 1 August 1914, the RE consisted of 1056 officers and 10394 men of the regular army and Special Reserve, plus another 513 and 13127 respectively serving with the RE of the Territorial Force. By the same date in 1917, it had grown to a total manpower of 295668. In other words, it was twelve times bigger than the peacetime establishment.
The Royal Engineers in 1914
The officers and men mentioned above in 1914 manned 26 coastal defence Fortress Companies (of which 15 were overseas); 15 Field Companies (2); 7 Signal Companies (1); 3 Survey Companies, 2 Railway Companies; 2 Cable and Airline (signalling) Companies and miscellaneous other units. There were also 9 Depot Companies carrying out training and administrative duties, as well as various Schools. The detailed sections below describe how these numbers and types of unit expanded during the war.
http://www.1914-1918.net/cre.htm
The Fortress Companies
http://www.1914-1918.net/re_fortress.htm
The Field and Signals Companies
http://www.1914-1918.net/re.htm
The Field Survey Companies
http://www.1914-1918.net/re_survey.htm
The Special Companies (poison gas)
http://www.1914-1918.net/specialcoyre.htm
The Tunnelling Companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnelling_companies_of_the_Royal_Engineers .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zggykqt .
The Railway Construction Companies
Manpower: how big was the RE?
On 1 August 1914, the RE consisted of 1056 officers and 10394 men of the regular army and Special Reserve, plus another 513 and 13127 respectively serving with the RE of the Territorial Force. By the same date in 1917, it had grown to a total manpower of 295668. In other words, it was twelve times bigger than the peacetime establishment.
The Royal Engineers in 1914
The officers and men mentioned above in 1914 manned 26 coastal defence Fortress Companies (of which 15 were overseas); 15 Field Companies (2); 7 Signal Companies (1); 3 Survey Companies, 2 Railway Companies; 2 Cable and Airline (signalling) Companies and miscellaneous other units. There were also 9 Depot Companies carrying out training and administrative duties, as well as various Schools. The detailed sections below describe how these numbers and types of unit expanded during the war.
http://www.1914-1918.net/cre.htm
The Fortress Companies
http://www.1914-1918.net/re_fortress.htm
The Field and Signals Companies
http://www.1914-1918.net/re.htm
The Field Survey Companies
http://www.1914-1918.net/re_survey.htm
The Special Companies (poison gas)
http://www.1914-1918.net/specialcoyre.htm
The Tunnelling Companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnelling_companies_of_the_Royal_Engineers .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zggykqt .
The Railway Construction Companies
http://www.1914-1918.net/re_rlwy_cos.htm
The Light Railway Companies
http://www.1914-1918.net/lightrail.htm
The Trench Tramway Companies
http://www.1914-1918.net/what_tramway_RE.html
The Inland Waterways and Docks Companies
http://www.1914-1918.net/iwd.htm
Other RE units
http://www.1914-1918.net/otherre.htm
The RE depots and training units at home
http://www.1914-1918.net/RE_ukbasedepots.html
The extraordinary sophistication of military railways in the Great War. At Richborough in Kent, a whole new port was built to expand Cross-Channel supply shipping capacity. Among its features was what we we today call a "roll-on, roll-off" ferry - for railway trains. Among the many tons moved from Richborough were complete trains carrying tanks, direct from the factories to the British army in France.
The contribution to the war effort, especially on the Western Front, of the designated Railway Construction Companies of the Royal Engineers is largely overlooked and/or not researched in most accounts of the conflict. Given the fact that the earliest troop movements gave rise to the phrase "war by timetable" and that the railway was the primary means of movement of men, munitions and supplies, the important if unglamorous role of this military function cannot be underestimated.
The RE railway construction and maintenance troops RE in 1914
In August 1914, there were only two Regular and three Special Reserve RE Railway Companies. Their establishments were as follows
.......
After the realisation that the war would not be over by Christmas, the British Army set in motion plans to expand upon the remaining rail network still in Allied hands in France and Flanders. The 8th Railway Companyy landed in France in August 1914 and the 10th and two Special Reserve Companies in November of that year. The third Special Reserve Company landed in February 1915. It was soon seen that these units would not suffice for probable requirements and the Director of Railway Transport was instructed to organise additional Railway Construction units. In October 1914, the Railway Executive Committee in England formed a Sub-Committee for Recruiting. Very large numbers of the employees of British railway companies were then volunteering for military service and the men for RE Railway units were selected from them. By the end of 1917, out of 180,000 enlistments from English railway companies, about 40,000 were serving in RE Railway units.
Training the RE troops
The HQ of the regular railway troops before the war was at Longmoor in Hampshire and the Special Reserve Companies came there annually for training using the specialised Woolmer Instructional Military Railway. During the war, Longmoor, and subsequently part of Bordon, became the centre for all RE railway and road personnel and at one time also for Inland Water Transport personnel. From the outbreak of the war until the armistice, nearly 1,700 officers and 66,000 other ranks were sent overseas from this centre.
The source of railway troops
Approximately half the officers for the new units were provided by the British railway companies on the recommendation of the Railway Executive Committee and the other half were mainly men from overseas who had been employed on colonial and foreign railways. Some of the Companies formed in 1915 drew upon a large contingent of local men, forming the kind of unit seen in the infantry as "Pal’s Battalions". However, as time wore on and with the major transport logistical re-structuring of 1917, the local flavour would become diluted as men were swapped around and experienced men from other army units were combed out to swell the ranks of the Railway Companies.
Railway construction
Once in France, the sappers would be assigned to a Construction Train, of which there were eight in operation in mid-1915. Each Construction Train would have a complement of up to two complete Railway Companies, with a Captain as officer commanding the train. This enabled the sappers to carry both themselves and all their necessary tools and equipment to and from wherever the next work was required. The Companies would pitch tents for accommodation, as required. Large-scale work would include the construction of the major stores and ammunition dump at Audruicq, ten miles from Calais. Here, and at numerous other locations such as the nearby major ammunition dump at Zeneghem Yard, there was great use of Chinese Labour and R.E. Labour Companies to prepare the ground, ready for the platelaying sappers.
Immense undertaking
As the various campaigns and battles unfolded, RE Railway Companies were engaged all over the British sector, joined by Dominion RE Railway Companies. Close examination of the period maps bear testimony to miles of what was to be temporary track that criss-crossed the area. Howitzer Spurs, Ambulance Train Sidings, Tank Enablements and bridges were all constructed, in addition to the constant maintenance and line doubling. Work in progress was always a potential target for enemy artillery and also there were the attentions of the German Air Force to contend with. Zeneghem Yard, for instance, was a natural target and sappers from RE Railway Companies are recorded as having to help extinguish serious fires resulting from air raids.
A primary objective was always to take standard gauge railways as close to the front as possible, to lessen the demands on light railway systems, horsed transport and manpower. For the sappers, work could mean toiling around the clock, especially where lines had been cut by shellfire. Inevitably there were casualties; analysis of the records shows that 173 men from Railway Companies lost their lives. From just the two Regular Companies in 1914, there would be a total of forty-five Companies engaged in Standard Gauge Railway Construction, including other theatres such as Egypt and Salonica, by the end of hostilities. Most of the men in the RE Railway Companies had enlisted for the duration of the war and were naturally keen to return home as soon as possible. However, there was still much line repair work to be done in order to restore the lines of communication now extending deeper into the areas formerly held by the Germans. The Railway Companies gradually began to be demobilised and by August 1919 the last Company had laid its last sleeper.
The RE also raised Railway Operating Companies and Railway Workshop Companies.
The Royal Engineers Labour Battalions
The RE raised 11 Labour Battalions consisting of navvies, tradesmen and semi-skilled men who could be released from munitions production work, for use in construction of rear lines of defence and other works. The first of these units began to arrive in France in August 1915. 30th Labour Battalion RE was allotted permanently to transport work; it was eventually converted into three of the railway construction companies and one wagon erecting company.
http://www.1914-1918.net/re_rlwy_cos.htm
Royal Engineers Museum > .
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ww1+royal+engineers
The Light Railway Companies
http://www.1914-1918.net/lightrail.htm
The Trench Tramway Companies
http://www.1914-1918.net/what_tramway_RE.html
The Inland Waterways and Docks Companies
http://www.1914-1918.net/iwd.htm
Other RE units
http://www.1914-1918.net/otherre.htm
The RE depots and training units at home
http://www.1914-1918.net/RE_ukbasedepots.html
The extraordinary sophistication of military railways in the Great War. At Richborough in Kent, a whole new port was built to expand Cross-Channel supply shipping capacity. Among its features was what we we today call a "roll-on, roll-off" ferry - for railway trains. Among the many tons moved from Richborough were complete trains carrying tanks, direct from the factories to the British army in France.
The contribution to the war effort, especially on the Western Front, of the designated Railway Construction Companies of the Royal Engineers is largely overlooked and/or not researched in most accounts of the conflict. Given the fact that the earliest troop movements gave rise to the phrase "war by timetable" and that the railway was the primary means of movement of men, munitions and supplies, the important if unglamorous role of this military function cannot be underestimated.
The RE railway construction and maintenance troops RE in 1914
In August 1914, there were only two Regular and three Special Reserve RE Railway Companies. Their establishments were as follows
.......
After the realisation that the war would not be over by Christmas, the British Army set in motion plans to expand upon the remaining rail network still in Allied hands in France and Flanders. The 8th Railway Companyy landed in France in August 1914 and the 10th and two Special Reserve Companies in November of that year. The third Special Reserve Company landed in February 1915. It was soon seen that these units would not suffice for probable requirements and the Director of Railway Transport was instructed to organise additional Railway Construction units. In October 1914, the Railway Executive Committee in England formed a Sub-Committee for Recruiting. Very large numbers of the employees of British railway companies were then volunteering for military service and the men for RE Railway units were selected from them. By the end of 1917, out of 180,000 enlistments from English railway companies, about 40,000 were serving in RE Railway units.
Training the RE troops
The HQ of the regular railway troops before the war was at Longmoor in Hampshire and the Special Reserve Companies came there annually for training using the specialised Woolmer Instructional Military Railway. During the war, Longmoor, and subsequently part of Bordon, became the centre for all RE railway and road personnel and at one time also for Inland Water Transport personnel. From the outbreak of the war until the armistice, nearly 1,700 officers and 66,000 other ranks were sent overseas from this centre.
The source of railway troops
Approximately half the officers for the new units were provided by the British railway companies on the recommendation of the Railway Executive Committee and the other half were mainly men from overseas who had been employed on colonial and foreign railways. Some of the Companies formed in 1915 drew upon a large contingent of local men, forming the kind of unit seen in the infantry as "Pal’s Battalions". However, as time wore on and with the major transport logistical re-structuring of 1917, the local flavour would become diluted as men were swapped around and experienced men from other army units were combed out to swell the ranks of the Railway Companies.
Railway construction
Once in France, the sappers would be assigned to a Construction Train, of which there were eight in operation in mid-1915. Each Construction Train would have a complement of up to two complete Railway Companies, with a Captain as officer commanding the train. This enabled the sappers to carry both themselves and all their necessary tools and equipment to and from wherever the next work was required. The Companies would pitch tents for accommodation, as required. Large-scale work would include the construction of the major stores and ammunition dump at Audruicq, ten miles from Calais. Here, and at numerous other locations such as the nearby major ammunition dump at Zeneghem Yard, there was great use of Chinese Labour and R.E. Labour Companies to prepare the ground, ready for the platelaying sappers.
Immense undertaking
As the various campaigns and battles unfolded, RE Railway Companies were engaged all over the British sector, joined by Dominion RE Railway Companies. Close examination of the period maps bear testimony to miles of what was to be temporary track that criss-crossed the area. Howitzer Spurs, Ambulance Train Sidings, Tank Enablements and bridges were all constructed, in addition to the constant maintenance and line doubling. Work in progress was always a potential target for enemy artillery and also there were the attentions of the German Air Force to contend with. Zeneghem Yard, for instance, was a natural target and sappers from RE Railway Companies are recorded as having to help extinguish serious fires resulting from air raids.
A primary objective was always to take standard gauge railways as close to the front as possible, to lessen the demands on light railway systems, horsed transport and manpower. For the sappers, work could mean toiling around the clock, especially where lines had been cut by shellfire. Inevitably there were casualties; analysis of the records shows that 173 men from Railway Companies lost their lives. From just the two Regular Companies in 1914, there would be a total of forty-five Companies engaged in Standard Gauge Railway Construction, including other theatres such as Egypt and Salonica, by the end of hostilities. Most of the men in the RE Railway Companies had enlisted for the duration of the war and were naturally keen to return home as soon as possible. However, there was still much line repair work to be done in order to restore the lines of communication now extending deeper into the areas formerly held by the Germans. The Railway Companies gradually began to be demobilised and by August 1919 the last Company had laid its last sleeper.
The RE also raised Railway Operating Companies and Railway Workshop Companies.
The Royal Engineers Labour Battalions
The RE raised 11 Labour Battalions consisting of navvies, tradesmen and semi-skilled men who could be released from munitions production work, for use in construction of rear lines of defence and other works. The first of these units began to arrive in France in August 1915. 30th Labour Battalion RE was allotted permanently to transport work; it was eventually converted into three of the railway construction companies and one wagon erecting company.
http://www.1914-1918.net/re_rlwy_cos.htm
Royal Engineers Museum > .
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ww1+royal+engineers
WW1 - British Royal Engineers & tunnelers
Tunnel Warfare - WW1 > .
Peter Barton: Was the tunnellers' secret war the most barbaric of WW1? > .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zggykqt
The Tunnelling Companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnelling_companies_of_the_Royal_Engineers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zggykqt
Explosives - WW1 Uncut - BBC > .
The Somme Secret Tunnel Wars BBC full documentary 2013 > .
WWI - Mining Activity On the British Front 220737-02
WWI - Mining Activity On the British Front]
Intertitle: “A party of tunnellers with stores & explosives are taken to an advanced post near the firing line in motor lorries.” Soldiers loading two trucks w/ cases / boxes & planks & wood for cribbing. Troops board trucks & leave. Men out of trucks at destination & wave to camera as they march past. Unload & carry crates.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=4s
1 “Entering the communication trenches.” Soldiers carrying crates singly & two w/ a pole down into trench.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=1m34s
2 “At the shaft head. A man equipped w/ oxygen
apparatus reports...no danger from gas...” He climbs out of shaft wearing breathing equipment.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=1m54s
3 “Looking up the incline shaft from. Men descending w/ material.” Men come down; others entering w/ equipment & w/ timbers. Inside shaft, men fill sacks; passing them up. Moving timbers in for cribbing.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=2m14s
3b Picking and timbering at the gallery face.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=3m5s
4 “An officer listening underground to the sound of German countermining. An order is given to commence charging the mine.” Cases of explosives are handed down; lowered on winch & carried along tunnel. Sacks put down to prevent back blast. Men leave mine, CU connecting detonator in open trench.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=3m24s
4b Preparing the changer and laying the charge of explosives
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=3m53s
4c Tamping or stemming the charge with earth-filled sacks to prevent back blast
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=4m5s
4d Work finished, the officer orders all the men out of the mines
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=4m16s
4e Testing the circuit and connecting the electric leads
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=4m37s
4f Connecting the exploder
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=4m43s
5 “Before the explosion the infantry take cover in a neighbouring crater on the Hohenzollern Redoubt.” Soldiers w/ rifles hurry down hillside.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=5m12s
5b Officer checks watch; pushes plunger.
https://youtu.be/w-1XBaEcRtg?t=5m20s
5c huge explosion under German trenches w/ barbed wire in FG. Secondary explosions.
6 Infantry, some Scottish in kilts run across open ground. Troops in trenches setting up machine gun, pan around barren landscape.
7 CU as bullets fed thru machine gun. GOOD. Pan round barren deeply cratered landscape w/ soldiers inspecting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-1XBaEcRtg
Meet the man with a WW1 trench in his back garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IitKjI4NA_g
World War 1 in Color
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgeJ6bGP6EDlgg1EB1_CDrvvUdcI2mjsr
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ww1+royal+engineers
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMU2-UiexaQ_pwpxxgQUdat
Evolution of the British Infantry during World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special > .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVs1F3x3eOsWWI videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVs1F3x3eOs
Technology and Warfare in World War 1 - tgw >> .
BRE - Western Front, WW1 > .
Royal Canadian Engineers - mining ore in Britain - Newsreel - 1943 > .
Newsreels (Canadian Army) WW2 >> .
Royal Canadian Engineers - mining ore in Britain - Newsreel - 1943 > .
Newsreels (Canadian Army) WW2 >> .
The Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers expanded dramatically in size to support Canada's war effort. On August 31, 1939, the Permanent Force engineers included 50 officers (with 14 seconded to other branches of the Canadian Army) and 323 other ranks; the maximum size of the Corps was reached in 1944, when it included 210 officers and 6283 other ranks.
In keeping with British Army practice, company-sized units in the two armoured divisions were called "squadrons" following cavalry terminology. Units were deployed in Canada and Europe.
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