Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Site of Lochnagar Crater at La Boiselle. February 2014

Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Site of Lochnagar Crater at La Boiselle. February 2014
The Lochnagar Crater ( named after a nearby WW1 trench which was named by an officer after a mountain in Deeside near Balmoral in Scotland where many of the 7th Gordons, based in La Boiselle, were estate workers ) at La Boiselle, the largest crater on the Western Front, was created on the first day of the Somme offensive on 1st July 1916 at 7.28 in the moring by exploding a hugh mine of 60,000 Lbs of guncotton under the the German front line. The Crater was slowly being eroded until Richard Dunning purchased the crater in 1978 after reading about it in 'The Old Front Line' by John Masefield, so that it might be saved as a permanent memorial. Remains of both British and German Soldiers are still being found in the surrounding landscape and are buried in nearby cemeteries but marked at the Crater by crosses and Poppy Wreaths. Seen here a cross and poppy wreath in memory of Private George Nugent of the Tyneside Scottish Northumberland Fusilers who was found on this spot on the crater rim on 31st October 1998 after being reported missing in action on the 1st of July 1916. He is buried at nearby Ovillers Military Cemetery.

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Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Site of Lochnagar Crater at La Boiselle. February 2014<br />
The Lochnagar Crater ( named after a nearby WW1 trench which was named by an officer after a mountain in Deeside near Balmoral in Scotland where many of the 7th Gordons, based in La Boiselle, were estate workers ) at La Boiselle, the largest crater on the Western Front, was created on the first day of the Somme offensive on 1st July 1916 at 7.28 in the moring by exploding a hugh mine of 60,000 Lbs of guncotton under the the German front line. The Crater was slowly being eroded until Richard Dunning purchased the crater in 1978 after reading about it in 'The Old Front Line' by John Masefield, so that it might be saved as a permanent memorial. Remains of both British and German Soldiers are still being found in the surrounding landscape and are buried in nearby cemeteries but marked at the Crater by crosses and Poppy Wreaths. Seen here a cross and poppy wreath in memory of Private George Nugent of the Tyneside Scottish Northumberland Fusilers who was found on this spot on the crater rim on 31st October 1998 after being reported missing in action on the 1st of July 1916. He is buried at nearby Ovillers Military Cemetery.