Tag: crater (4 photos)
- Location
- Albert, France (map)
- Date Taken
- Saturday, March 23, 2002
- Category
- War Memorials
- Description
- Beaumont-Hamel - Planned feature of the Newfoundland park - Treed avenue - landscape architect: Rudolph Cochius. "The north end draws one's attention to the Hawthorn crater, and the other end, the caribou monument."
- Location
- Albert, France (map)
- Date Taken
- Saturday, March 23, 2002
- Category
- War Remnants
- Description
- Lochnagar Crater. For scale, notice the normal size park bench in the upper right.
- Location
- Albert, France (map)
- Date Taken
- Saturday, March 23, 2002
- Category
- War Remnants
- Description
- Lochnagar Crater "detonated at 7:28 am on 1 July 1916 by the British along with several others intended to create breaches for the infantry to pour through in their advance. The village was not captured until the following day."
- Location
- Ypres, Belgium (map)
- Date Taken
- Saturday, February 16, 2002
- Category
- War Remnants
- Description
- Spanbroekmolen Crater (Lone Tree Crater). "This crater was one of 10 blown up by the second army on June 7th 1917. Following the explosion of this mine Lord Plumber's Army was able to secure the Messines Ridge."
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