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The Empty Chair

As part of The Forget Never, (Oublier Jamais, Vergessen Niemals) project coordinated by the Basildon Borough Heritage Group and linked with Basildon’s twinning towns, Meaux in France and Heiligenhaus in... read more →
  • 26 April 2019
  • Article Extract, Memorials

Centenary Armistice Day 2018

The Centenary of the Armistice on 11th November 2018 was a hugely important day for us as Friends of Lochnagar and for everyone throughout the world. With the Lochnagar Crater... read more →
  • 22 April 2019
  • Article Extract, Remembrance

The Great Peace Begins

1918 – THE GREAT WAR ENDS 2018 – THE GREAT PEACE BEGINS That is the vision of Lochnagar. The centenary commemoration period is officially over but the next chapter of... read more →
  • 8 April 2019
  • Article Extract, General

Services to Remembrance – Medaille Centenaire Amiens

It was a great honour to go to Amiens on Friday 1st February where Richard had been invited to the ‘World War I Centenary Medal Ceremony and the opening of... read more →
  • 1 February 2019
  • Article Extract, General, Remembrance

Vandalism at the Crater

Most Friends will by now have heard of the terrible events at... read more →
  • 11 April 2018
  • Article Extract, General

The Street Memorials of St Albans

Meet Trooper Walter Bell. He’s remembered with a plaque on the Crater walkway and is buried in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery near Albert. He was 20 when he was killed, on... read more →
  • 9 April 2018
  • Article Extract, Friends

A Photographer’s Eye

By Stephen Kerr For most visitors, the Somme is a photographer’s dream.  Sites like Lochnagar Crater, the cemeteries, memorials and woods, and the rolling landscape, are irresistibly photogenic. Stephen Kerr... read more →
  • 5 April 2018
  • Article Extract, Friends

‘The Salt of the Earth’

Every now and again, words written by men who survived the slaughter on the battlefields a century ago echo through the years. Relationships made in appalling conditions can cascade through... read more →
  • 3 April 2018
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The Day I Met Rawlinson at Lochnagar Crater

By Martin Middlebrook The name of Martin Middlebrook is inseparable from the name of the Somme. Nobody visiting the battlefield will be unaware of his ground-breaking work, The First Day... read more →
  • 1 April 2018
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‘Making Soldiers’: British Art as Propaganda

By Peter Vass For General Haig, the Battle of the Somme was supposed to be the solution to the stalemate on the western Front not, as it turned out to... read more →
  • 1 March 2018
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