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Dec 08
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Friends’ Working Weekend 2022

With the easing of many of the restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic we are optimistic that we will be able to recommence our annual Friends of Lochnagar Working Weekend in 2022. Although normally taking place over the British ‘Late May Bank Holiday’, next year with the bank holiday coinciding... read more →
  • 8 December 2021
  • General
Dec 08

Lochnagar Commemorative Plaques

We are pleased to announce we are once again able to take applications to sponsor our emotive faux-brass Commemorative Plaques. They pay tribute to a generation of men and women, whether they died or survived, and have become an important feature at Lochnagar and highlight the terrible impact of a... read more →
  • 8 December 2021
  • General
Nov 15
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‘Thank You’ So Far, In Our Ongoing Walkway Crisis Appeal

‘The Lochnagar Crater Foundation would like to extend its gratitude to our very many supporters who have so kindly given to the Walkway Crisis Appeal. We thank too the WFA for its extremely generous one-off donation in helping to bring us closer to our target. Thanks to you all, we... read more →
  • 15 November 2021
  • General
Oct 10

Karl Orsinger’s Grave Marker Returns Home

One of the most satisfying moments of the year has been helping with the return of a large 1916 German grave-marker back to his appreciative family in Baden-Baden. This story, together with many equally moving articles, is superbly chronicled in our current edition of Lochnagar Crater Today available to members... read more →
  • 10 October 2021
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Oct 08
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1st July with the ‘FORGET NEVER’ Project

Thank you to our Friends at Basildon Twinning and The Forget Never Project for the wonderful video available here. So many good people from the towns of Basildon in the UK, Meaux in France, and Heiligenhaus in Germany, all reciting The Lochnagar Promise for July 1st.
  • 8 October 2021
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Oct 05
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The sad loss of friend, RÉAL DELPLANQUE

It was with enormous shock and sadness that on the 4th October we heard of the sudden death of Réal Delplanque, one of our most valued, and faithful Friends in France. Réal, like his brother Jean-Claude, has been involved in all things Lochnagar since day one. He was a man... read more →
  • 5 October 2021
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Apr 01
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STOP THE PRESS – COVID 19

It is with regret that Lochnagar’s annual Working Weekend between May 22nd and 25th this year has been cancelled. And owing to continued travel restrictions and social-distancing requirements, for the first time in 40 years, the annual Lochnagar Remembrance Ceremony on July 1st is to be cancelled or extremely curtailed.... read more →
  • 1 April 2020
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May 03

SAD NEWS

It was with huge regret that we recently learnt of the passing of Ian Alexander, one of Lochnagar’s most valued and long-standing supporters. For many years it was the hugely imposing sight of Ian, in his striking piper’s uniform, that would become an unforgettable image of the July 1st ceremony.... read more →
  • 3 May 2019
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Apr 29

Forthcoming Works

Working in close consultation with our dedicated ‘Clerk of Works’, Vinny Felstead and his team, we will be considering refurbishing the badly worn area between the cross and the Visitors’ Book plinth with an extension of the wooden walkway. Funding is thanks to a kind and generous donation from one... read more →
  • 29 April 2019
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Apr 26

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 Germany, a memorial called ‘The Empty Chair’ was installed at Lochnagar Crater in November. It was the culmination of work... read more →
  • 26 April 2019
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