Somme massive World war one mine crater. People on the rim and poppy wreaths at the bottom show the scale of this explosion

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The crater left when a huge mine was detonated at Hawthorn Ridge, Beamont Hamel, at the start of the Somme offensive, 1st July 1916

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Size: 5768px × 4328px
Location: Hawthorn Ridge, Beamont Hamel,The Somme Northern France, Europe
Photo credit: © Alan Orr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: battle, crater, craterexplosion, fields, great, hamel1st, hawthorn, poppyflanders, ridgebeamont, somme, war, warpoppy, warremembrance, world, wreaths