1 July 1916: On the first day of the Somme, British engineers detonated nineteen large mines they had tunneled beneath the German front-line fortifications: the Hawthron Ridge Redoubt & the Schwabenhöhe, et alii; the explosions, still among the largest non-nuclear blasts in history, were heard as far away as London; the Lochnagar Crater has been preserved as a battlefield memorial.
Lest we forget.
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