Lochnagar Crater is probably the most renowned (and terrible) residues at the senseless slaughter of the Somme (Globe War I - I, France). The scale of Lochnagar Crater is large (far more than 90 meters wide and 30 meters deep.) The Lochnagar Crater was (also known as recognized as "The Moles") of a gigantic subterranean explosion of British soldiers from the Royal Engineer tunneling firms that excavated set formed a 600 meters' attack tunnel "below the German trenches, exactly where they placed and detonated two mines on 1 July 1916 briefly - it is not the British as well significantly and the Battle of the Somme raged for a additional four months in which more than 420,000 European men lost their lives. The Battle of the Somme was genuinely a war inside a war, which was also the first operation in the history that the tank was employed. Adolf Hitler was wounded in this battle (it is a shame that he did not die from the injury ...)
For far more info visit Wikipedia - Lochnagar mine
Enlarge map of Lochnagar Crater
Next photo of Roland Turner (flickr) Some Rights Reserved
Lochnagar Crater france
& nbsp
Photo by © Mike St Maur Sheil / Mary Evans Collection
Website | Exhibition | Facebook | Prints
& nbsp
Lochnagar Crater
