Poppy wreaths at the Lochnagar Mine Crater Memorial, La Boisselle, France, laid at the 98th anniversary of the Somme offensive.

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Wreaths of poppies at the Lochnagar Mine Crater Memorial, La Boisselle, France, laid at the 98th anniversary of the British Somme offensive of 1 July 1916. The Lochnagar mine crater on the 1916 Somme battlefields in France is the largest man-made mine crater created in the First World War on the Western Front. It was blown along with 16 others at 07:28 on the morning of 1 July 1916 as a two-minute precursor to the start of the offensive. The Lochnagar Crater measured 300ft across and 90ft deep (200ft wide and 81ft deep by 1919). Debris from the explosion rose some 4,000ft into the air. The crater receives around 75,000 visitors a year and is thus one of the most popular sites on the Western Front.

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Size: 2735px × 4013px
Location: Lochnagar Mine Crater Memorial, La Boisselle, France.
Photo credit: © Matthew Barnes / ww1 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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