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When ?		Where ?
How ?		Why ?
Who ?		What ?

Click the links for more details, the following is just a summary.

When ?	7:28 am 1st July 1916 the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Where ?	La Boisselle, near Albert, on the Somme, France.

Who ?	34th Division - 101st Brigade, 102nd Brigade (The Tyneside Scottish), 103rd Brigade (The Tyneside Irish).

How ?	Royal Engineers dug a mine and detonated 27 tons of high explosive in two chambers.

What ?	A massive crater opened up. The British soldiers marched in a straight line towards the German trenches and more than 6,000 were killed.

Why ?	The aim was to tunnel towards and under the German trenches and explode mines under them.

Result	A very large crater, many thousands killed, some advances gaining ground from the Germans.

THE LOCHNAGAR CRATER PRIZE

'Impressions of Lochnagar'

An annual competition for young people aged between 11-17 yrs designed to
encourage interest in this unique Great War Memorial.

Entries for the £200 award can be in any medium
including Art, Prose, Poetry, Photography or Music.

This Prize is sponsored by Mike and Frances Speakman in memory of their daughter Angela.

The prize of £200 will be divided equally between two age groups:

11 - 14 years & 15 - 17 years

Please contact us through this e-mail address
on how to submit your entries to the competition.
The cut off date for receiving entries for 2012 will be October 1st.

Mike And Frances Speakman

The 2011 'LOCHNAGAR CRATER' prize was won by year 7 pupils from Collegiate High School, Blackpool, average age 12. Click this link to see their entry.

The runner up was Jack Bettridge, aged 13 from Tring School, Herts. Click this link to see Jack's poem.