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A large crater survived the war known as the Lochnagar crater or the Trou de mine de La Boisselle. The Lochnagar mine south of the village of La Boisselle in the Somme département was an underground explosive charge, secretly planted by the British during the First World War, to be ready for 1 July 1916, the first day on the Somme..
Travels on the Somme Part Fourteen La Boisselle The Lochnagar Crater
One of the more unusual sites is the Lochnagar Crater, just 4.4 kilometers (almost 3 miles) northeast of Albert , just south of the village of La Boisselle. Sometimes referred to as the Trou de Mine, or mine hole, this huge crater resulted from a mine explosion at 7:28 AM on July 1, 1916. British tunnellers had worked for weeks to dig under the.
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Modern aerial photographs. Images taken 7 October 2011 by Terry Blackwood. All images are copyright La Boisselle Study Group and cannot be reproduced without their permission. Aerial oblique looking from Lochnagar Crater towards La Boisselle. The boundary of the Glory Hole site is marked. Aerial oblique looking from Lochnagar Crater towards the.
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Meaning, sufficient explosive was used to, not only break the surface and form a crater, but enough to cause spoil to fall in the surrounding fields and form a lip around the Crater of approximately 15ft high, to protect the advancing British troops from enfilade machine-gun fire from the nearby village of La Boisselle. The Crater was captured.
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Along the D20 in La Boisselle a sign points to the right to 'La Grande Mine'. High on a hill outside the village is 'La Grande Mine', a great crater known to.
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The Capture of La Boisselle (1-6 July 1916) was a tactical incident during the Battle of Albert, the name given by the British to the first two weeks of the Battle of the Somme.The village of La Boisselle forms part of the small commune of Ovillers-la-Boisselle about 22 mi (35 km) north-east of Amiens in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France.
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Just as the road from the Lochnagar Crater rejoins the main D929 is the la Boiselle Tyneside memorial seat. This location is just to the north-west of the 'Glory Hole' and also almost exactly on the British front line of July 1st, 1916.. La Boisselle, Pozieres and Contalmaison. This explains the high number of unidentified burials.
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Location. The Lochnagar Crater is within the Commune of Ovillers-la Boisselle and is located close to the village of La Boisselle to the south of the D929 between the town of Albert and the village of Pozières. On arrival at La Boisselle look out for the signs to the La Grande Mine. the Crater is south south-east of the village a short way.
Travels on the Somme Part Fourteen La Boisselle The Lochnagar Crater
The Lochnagar Crater was created by a large mine detonated beneath the German front line by the British Army's 179th Tunnelling Company Royal Engineers, at 7:28am on July 1st, 1916. The explosion marked the beginning of the Battle of the Somme and was the largest of 19 mines, placed beneath the German front line to assist the British infantry.
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The Y Sap mine was an underground explosive charge, secretly planted by the British during the First World War and ready for 1 July 1916, the first day on the Somme.The mine was dug by the Tunnelling Companies of the Royal Engineers under a German machine-gun nest known as Blinddarm in the front line, on the north side of the village of La Boisselle in the Somme département.
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The Lochnagar Crater, La Boisselle. This huge mine crater is 91 metres across and 21 metres deep. Belonging to Englishman Richard Dunning, Lochnagar Crater is the only mine crater still accessible to the public. It marks the beginning of the Battle of the Somme, at 7.28am on 1st July 1916. 8. The Somme 1916 Museum, Albert
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The mines were detonated by the Royal Engineers in the morning of Saturday 1 July, the opening day of the Battle of Albert (1-13 July), the name given by the British to the first two weeks of the Battle of the Somme. The British Third and Fourth armies, together with nine corps of the French Sixth Army, would attack the German 2nd Army in an.
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The Lochnagar mine south of the village of La Boisselle in the Somme département was an underground explosive charge, secretly planted by the British during the First World War, to be ready for 1 July 1916, the first day on the Somme.The mine was dug by the Tunnelling Companies of the Royal Engineers under a German field fortification known as Schwabenhöhe (Swabian Height).
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A well preserved mine crater from the first world war. A boardwalk allows you to walk around, information panels tell the story. Follow signs 'La grand mine' from La Boisselle. On road parking just before crater. Sat-navs may direct you down tracks, take care.
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Lochnagar Crater is located on the southern part of the 1916 Somme battlefields to the south of the D929 Albert-Bapaume road and immediately south of the village of La Boisselle. From the D929 enter the village of La Boisselle in the direction of Contalmaison. Take a right turn which will be signposted to the crater with a sign for "La Grande.
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Captain Young had blown the mine crater of La Boisselle, the biggest of the Great War, a single, vast, smooth sided, flat bottom chasm measuring some 220 feet (67 metres) diameter excluding the lip, and 450 feet (137 metres) across the full extent of the lip. It had obliterated between 300 and 400 feet (91 and 122 metres) of the German dug-outs.