The 90th Anniversary Commemoration Service

Each year at 07:30 hours the Friends of Lochnagar hold a short service of remembrance up at the cross.

This year was special with a larger crowd of participants than usual marking the 90th Anniversary of the explosion of this huge land mine.

The ceremony followed its simple format with one extra touch from French villagers throughout all of the sixty Cantons on the battlefield.

As the maroon detonated and whistles blew to mark that fatal moment, 90 years ago, as the earth shook with the violence which created this huge crater, the church bells across the countryside peeled out to commemorate all who died in the five terrible months that would follow in 1916.

Here are a few photos from the service in 2006

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The ceremony in 2004