Lochnagar Crater

The Somme

• 1st July 1916• La Boisselle• Grimsby Chums Pals

Battalion

• Royal Devonshire's

The biggest man made crater

• 179th Company Tunneling, Royal Engineers

• 67m wide• 91m deep• Heard in London• 4000ft high debris field

Cecil A Lewis MC

The aftermath

• Trenches above the mine destroyed

• Germans well entrenched• Heavy machine gun fire

followed• Many losses• Secured 3rd July

Lochnagar

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Lochnagar Crator

• Somme, France• 1st July 1916• Biggest man made

crater/sound• Destroyed many German

positions but not all• Finally taken on 3rd July

1916