06-19-2005, 06:53 AM
I have looked further into this event and can confirm that it was the 294th Engineer Combat Battalion that was involved. The later report states that it was a mine-laying excersise that went wrong when the live mines were being collected on completion of practice for the day and the truck rolled back over a mine not yet recovered. The colossal explosion hit C Company and those who died are named at the end of the paragraph.
Sherborne is not too far from me here and I hope to go there some time and photograph the memorial plaque.