Lochnagar Crater
During the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, the Lochnager mine was blown up resulting in this crater. A memorial for those who fell here on 1 July 1916.
Small commemorative plaques, commemorating the fallen or veterans of the First World War, have been placed on almost all the treads of the footpath around the Lochnagar Crater.
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- Text: TracesOfWar
- Photos: Jan van den Bos (1, 5), Luc Van Waeyenberge (2, 3, 4)
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