Travels on the Somme Part Fourteen La Boisselle The Lochnagar Crater
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..
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Getting to Lochnagar Crater. The address of the location is 3 Route de la Grande Mine, 80300 Ovillers-la-Boisselle, France. Head for the village of La Boisselle which is on the D929 between the town of Albert and the village of Pozières. On arrival at La Boisselle look out for the signs to La Grande Mine.
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Mine crater at la Boiselle just after the War. Photo from Michelin Guide to the Somme Battlefields. top la Boiselle. An area just to the south of the main D929 road was known as the Glory hole. Here, the front lines were extremely close together, and small mines had been blown by both sides to try and gain some advantage.. La Boisselle.
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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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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.
Lochnagar Crater at La Boisselle near Albert in the Somme Stock Photo
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.
Lochnager Crater at la Boisselle on the Somme in France Stock Photo Alamy
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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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.
Lochnagar Mine Crater, OvillerslaBoisselle, Somme, France Stock Photo
The Crater today is very much a place for quiet reflection and the only one of its kind open to the public. 5 minutes from Albert at La Boisselle, "Lochnagar Crater" is a blast hole, now 100 years old, one of a series of explosions which marked the beginning of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916. Its spectacular size (91 metres across and.
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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).
Panoramic (stitched) pic of Locnagar Mine Crater, near La Boisselle, in
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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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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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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Begun a week after La Boisselle was finally captured on 4th July 1916, the cemetery was used until September, by which time it contained 95, mainly Australian, burials. After the war it was greatly increased in size as men originally buried on the surrounding battlefield were brought here but, as is so often the case, many of these men could.
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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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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.