La Boiselle, the Lochnagar Crater.

Lochnagar Crater ,France.

Gary (secretary) and friends have been on a World War 1 battlefield tour and visited Lochnagar Crater at La Boiselle (on the site of the Battle of the Somme).

History.

  A  mine had been dug under the German Trench  packed with explosives and was to be detonated on the morning of the attack, (July 1^st 1916).  Unfortunately it was a few yards short but nevertheless it left a huge crater.Years passed and the French wanted to fill it in but the land was bought by an Englishman and so was able to preserve the crater.

A former member of the Club, Murdo Maciness was successful in fund raising for a bench to be bought and placed on the lip of the crater where the 'Grimsby Chums’ attacked the German Trench. In 1999 Murdo led a party of Grimsby Rotarians for a service to dedicate the bench and it has a plaque commemorating the Grimsby Chums. 

Murdo (and other members) have visited the site on a number of occasions for   

July 1^st commemoration service,

To clean and paint the bench (the bench is now looked after by another organisation)

11^th November service.

The attached photographs record the visits.