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About Lochnagar Crater Today

This article is an extract from Lochnagar Crater Today the journal of The Friends of Lochnagar, a publication exclusive to the Friends. To get your exclusive issue and read full articles and be kept up to date on the Crater and activities JOIN NOW.

The Thin Black Line: Brothers in Arms

There can’t be many World War One veterans who won a Military Medal for bravery, went on to become a Prime Minister, then to become an ‘Official Hero’, and to... read more →
  • 1 February 2017
  • Article Extract, Friends

Towards the Goal

‘The aftermath of an earthquake!’ Do the words express the reality before us as we move along the mile of road between Albert and La Boisselle! Hardly. The earth-shudder that... read more →
  • 1 February 2017
  • Article Extract, Friends

A Sister Remembered

Most of the memorials you’ll see as you walk round Lochnagar Crater are for men who fought in the First World War. But we also remember that women took part... read more →
  • 1 February 2017
  • Article Extract, Friends

Thomas and I

Looking back, it’s now very hard to untangle the hundreds of different trips to the Somme. The first one is easy to remember as is... read more →
  • 1 February 2017
  • Article Extract, Friends

Captain John Foley

25th Battalion northumberland Fusiliers (2nd Tyneside Irish) Killed in Action 1 July 1916, aged 29 John Foley was born... read more →
  • 1 August 2015
  • Biography, Friends

Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Association (RAFMRA) Lochnagar Remembrance Stone

The two Lochnagars, one a mountain in Scotland, the other a Great War crater in France and now a Peace Memorial, are linked together by having the same name. [caption... read more →
  • 1 July 2015
  • Friends, Memorials

10th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment 3rd July 1916

Extract from 'The Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War' by Captain H. FitzM. Stacke MC. That afternoon the 58th Brigade attacked the La Boisselle salient, securing a lodgment on the southern... read more →
  • 20 February 2013
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The Lochnagar Crater Cross Appeal

The original Cross was erected in 1986. Made from ancient pine rescued from a deconsecrated church in northumberland, it was struck by lightning soon after it was erected. It did... read more →
  • 20 June 2011
  • Appeals, Friends, General

Losing the cross was a very sad moment, however our thoughts were with Richard and what could be done to help. I put forward suggestions to Richard and once he... read more →
  • 18 June 2011
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Josef Bonell, Austro-Hungarian Infantry Officer

I'm living in the past, in the WW1 days, probably I have inherited this from my maternal grandfather,... read more →
  • 3 June 2011
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