By Jason King Many hundreds of young people are introduced to Lochnagar Crater each year on trips organised by their schools. These visits are crucially important. With luck - and with some inspired teaching – the experience generates a lasting impression and a willingness to help the mission of remembrance.... read more →

A small family group stand in a field commemorating the death of a soldier in the Battle of the Somme. The man being honoured is Corporal Ernest Goodridge of the 18th King’s Royal Rifles. He was killed in October, 1916. He was 24 years old. Acts like this are not... read more →

By John A. Taylor Many visitors on their way to La Boisselle will have stopped to examine the austere obelisk of the Tank Corps memorial, crowning the ridge at Pozières beside the busy main road from Albert to Bapaume. The site of this memorial, flanked by its miniature bronze tanks,... read more →

It’s only a simple bench in the beautiful rolling hills and woods of the Chilterns north of London, but it reminds us of the terrible human cost of the fighting on the Somme a hundred years ago. The bench overlooks the remarkable remains of what was once a lengthy and... read more →

Julian Cornelius Brook was an aspiring young lawyer from the north Island of New Zealand, but now lies buried in the Adanac Military Cemetery near the edge of the 1916 battlefield, between the villages of Miraumont and Corcelette, about eight miles from La Boisselle. He’s one of more than 18,000... read more →

If you read The Times, you’ll know the newspaper is carrying a report on the War every day from their coverage on that day a hundred years ago. On August 14th, 1917, a piece appeared under the headline: It’s not directly about the landscape at La Boisselle, but the correspondent... read more →

By Robert Perry Few visitors to the Somme see the cruel beauty of the battlefields in quite the same way as Robert Perry – one of the stalwarts of the Friends of Lochnagar and an esteemed and highly respected landscape artist. Rob’s a familiar sight on the battlefield, with his... read more →

They’re a much-loved symbol of remembrance, and it’s difficult to imagine the annual July 1st anniversary at Lochnagar Crater without them. But for years, the Crater was bare – until Richard Dunning acquired it and the custom of using poppies inside the Crater began to evolve. ... read more →

This dramatic image is inspired by a sequence in a film about the Battle of the Somme made in 1927. It’s recreated by the Production Editor of Lochnagar Crater Today, Michael Gilbert, and captures the tension the Tommies faced as the clock ticked down to the moment when the troops... read more →