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Lochnagar Crater Today

For seven years, from the spring of 2017, the Lochnagar Crater Foundation published a biannual magazine called ‘Lochnagar Crater Today’. Each issue features human interest stories from both sides of the front line – and from the home front.
There are more than a hundred stories altogether, all focussing on people rather than politics, armies, strategy or tactics.
Each story is entirely original. For the first time, these stories are now available here, so everyone can access them.

ISSUE 1 – SPRING 2017

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In this issue:

Every Plaque Tells a Story
Thomas and I
A Sister Remembered
The Thin Black Line: Brothers in Arms
Towards the Goal
How One Thing Leads to Another
July 1st 1916- Zero Hour
Lochnagar Crater in Somme Tales
Looking Back (Poetry Corner)
Friends Indeed: Caring for the Crater

ISSUE 2 – AUTUMN 2017

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In this issue:

‘On Trek Through Mud and Slush…’
Tanks at La Boisselle: a Forgotten Story
‘Wearied Hearts and Broken Lives’
‘From Little Towns in a Far Land’
Seeing the Battlefield: An Artist’s View
‘The Poppies Blow Between the Crosses, Row on Row …’
Calling All Schools

ISSUE 3 – SPRING 2018

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In this issue:

The Street Memorials of St Albans
A Photographer’s Eye
‘The Salt of the Earth’
The Day I Met a Rawlinson at Lochnagar Crater
‘Making Soldiers’: British Art as Propaganda
A Conversation in Wood
‘The Ceremony that I Witnessed will stay with me Forever’
La Boisselle and the Great War – A Pictorial History
‘Nature and the Battlefield’

ISSUE 4 – AUTUMN 2018

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In this issue:

‘One of the Lucky Ones’
‘The Dead Lie Far From Us…’
‘Hier Ruht in Gott’
‘A Dome of Blackness’
‘Black, Handsome, A Sporting Star’
‘You can Ride a Horse, So You can Master an Aeroplane!’
‘That Finished Me Off for the Time Being’
‘Battlelines Redrawn’
The Times
Yesterday and Today, Hier Et Aujourd’hui

ISSUE 5 – SPRING 2019

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In this issue:

‘Goodbye Goodbye and Think of Me in Your Prayers’
‘A Welcome Grain of Solace’
‘Peace Was Signed and I Could Not Rejoice’
‘I Was Just About As Scared As I Could Be’
‘A Trace is From Our Household Gone’
‘The Men Worked Like Hell’
‘No Parleying With The Enemy’
‘Reflections on Nature’
‘Goodnight Kiss’
The History Man

ISSUE 6 – AUTUMN 2019

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In this issue:

‘I Consider an Example Should be Made’
‘It is Special to Me’
‘The Kelowna Cross’
‘One Black Nightmare’
‘Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings’
‘The Mother’
‘Finding the Facts’

ISSUE 7 – SPRING 2020

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In this issue:

‘Gueules Cassées: The Men with Broken Faces’
‘Men Went Down Like Ninepins on Every Side’
‘Hier Et Aujourd’hui: Yesterday and Today’
‘The Star of David on the Somme’
‘Posthumous Portraits’
‘Uniting Continents’
‘Lieutenant Clifford Neelands and the ‘Hallu Eight’
‘What You Want to Say… And How to Say it in French’
‘The Bible With The Bullet’
‘Clarification’
‘Fancy Helping Out?’

ISSUE 8 – AUTUMN 2020

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In this issue:

‘Strange Times’
‘Cette Année’
‘Look After The Boys’
‘The Star Of David’
‘Wilfred’s War’
‘The Tunnellers’
‘Worthy And Permanent Memorials’
‘It Took My Breath Away’
‘Hier Et Aujourd’hui’
‘By The Time You Receive This I Shall Be Dead’

ISSUE 9 – SPRING 2021

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In this issue:

‘Visiting the Somme 1919-1939’
‘Family Pilgrims 1923 and 2015’
‘The Empty Chair’
‘The Star Of David on the Somme and What Happened Next’
‘Brought in from the Cold’
‘Wilfred’s War and Rats Galore: Part 2’
‘Ivor Gurney’s Map Therapy’
‘La Vierge Dorée The Golden Virgin’

ISSUE 10 – AUTUMN 2021

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In this issue:

‘Zum Frommen Andenken’: Karl Orsinger
‘Have had my first experience’: John Canning Dove
‘Weak and Good for Nothing’
‘Thirty Years On’
‘Poor Tommy has been killed’
‘Yesterday and Today’
‘Y.M.C.A.’ A New View of the Western Front
‘Lochnagar during Lockdown’

ISSUE 11 – SPRING 2022

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In this issue:

‘I am fortunately in good health’
‘La Vierge’
‘In that distant land’
‘How and why I became a Friend of Lochnagar’
‘A tale of two grandads’
‘Here was something more beautiful still…’
‘How one thing leads to another’
‘Ypres and the Somme’
‘Yesterday and Today Hier et Aujourd’hui’
‘Irish Memorial Update’

ISSUE 12 – AUTUMN 2022

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In this issue:

‘Have they broken through?’
‘Nothing seemed to trouble him’
‘A short-lived stroke of fortune’
‘Discovering forgotten treasures’
‘Holding the line’
‘With complete disregard for his own safety’
‘Lochnagar Crater, the bike track’
‘Lochnagar Crater, with canvas and brush’
‘Leave a flower for me’
‘Lest Sligo forgets’

ISSUE 13 – SPRING 2023

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In this issue:

‘The V.C. who wasn’t’
‘Music from the battlefield’
‘Make sure that this terrible time will never be forgotten’
‘Then and now’
‘He was too brave’
‘Thank God that I am safe’
‘The Scene was awful’
‘Side by side’

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