Tyneside Memorial Cross. Lochnagar Mine Crater, La Boisselle, Somme, France.
Tyneside Memorial wooden cross was placed at the crater in 1986. The wooden beams are from the roof of a reconsecrated church near Durham in England. The origins of the wooden beams are significant as many of the British soldiers killed here on 1st July 1916 during the attack on the German Front Line were men from Tyneside in the north-east of England. Many of them miners, they were recruited to form several battalions in the regiment of the Northumberland Fusiliers. The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was one of the largest battles of the First World War. Fought between July 1 and November 1, 1916 near the Somme River in France, it was also one of the bloodiest military battles in history. On the first day alone, the British suffered more than 57,000 casualties, and by the end of the campaign the Allies and Central Powers would lose more than million men.
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