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Oct 21

Plaque Team Update

Time for another note from the Plaque Team. With only a few new sponsorship requests in the winter months following the ceremony in November 2023, we decided to forego our usual trip to install plaques in the Spring. However, we are delighted to report that new sponsorship requests soon gathered... read more →
  • 21 October 2024
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Oct 21

Flypast: WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust’s ‘Poems, Planes, and Flowers’ Tribute

We were approached last summer by Dick Forsythe from the WW1 Aviation Heritage Trust who told us about an interesting project they were trying to bring to France. Collaborating with writers and inviting schoolchildren to write poems on paper impregnated with poppy, cornflower and forget-me-not seeds in remembrance of the... read more →
  • 21 October 2024
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Mar 13

The Friends’ Working Weekend 2024

The Working Weekend this year falls on the late May Bank Holiday, from Friday, May 24th to Monday, May 27th. As we say every year, all are welcome, and whether you wrestle with brambles or chat with visitors, everyone who comes along has an equal part to play in the... read more →
  • 13 March 2024
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Mar 13

The Somme Battlefield Pipe Band

Anyone who has been at the Lochnagar Crater on July 1st will know of our deep appreciation and friendship with the Somme Battlefield Pipe Band. For many years, they have been a mainstay of our ceremony, with the lone piper often walking ghostlike out of the mist at the beginning,... read more →
  • 13 March 2024
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Mar 13

Complicated work ahead on the walkway

Replacement of the walkway continues, and our excellent local builder, Arnaud Delescluse, has now completed the path up to the edge of the raised section in front of George Nugent’s cross. The next 20 meters or so are very complicated as he must follow the contour of the ground while... read more →
  • 13 March 2024
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Mar 13

Our ongoing appreciation to the maire and the welcoming people of ovillers-la-boisselle

We continue to have a wonderful and warm relationship between the Commune and all the Friends. Led by the especially supportive Maire, the kind people of both the villages are superbly helpful and appreciative of our endeavours. Thank you all and long may it continue. RD
  • 13 March 2024
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Mar 13

David & Julie Thomson’s Somme Gallery 2024

People were so pleased last year when we shared pictures from David and Julie Thomson of No. Fifty6 bed + breakfast at La Boisselle that we knew we must do it again. Taken on their walks around the Somme, these evocative and beautiful pictures remind us of what we’re all... read more →
  • 13 March 2024
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Mar 13

Renewing the labyrinth panels and the stands

Those Friends and visitors who have been to the Crater in the last year or so will have seen that the Labyrinth Panels now need serious care and attention. They are over six years old and although they have lasted brilliantly, they have had to endure the extremes of Somme... read more →
  • 13 March 2024
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Mar 13

The sad passing of martin middlebrook

Many of you will have already heard of the death of Martin Middlebrook at aged 91, one of the original, and most loved and respected military historians of both world wars, a hugely popular battlefield tour guide and speaker with a lifelong mission of remembrance. He was also, from day... read more →
  • 13 March 2024
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Dec 07
walkway refurbishment

Progress on the walkway

We have been very pleased with the wonderful work and the progress made on the walkway so far. We have commissioned work with our builder Arnaud Delescluse section by section throughout the year. It may be a close thing if we are to complete the whole project by the end... read more →
  • 7 December 2023
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