1–6 July 1916 — Somme, Picardy, France
Coordinates: 50.02° N, 2.69° E
La Boisselle — The Lochnagar Inferno
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RESEARCH SOURCES
- Official History of the Great War: Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1916, Vols. I–II.
- Middlebrook, Martin. The First Day on the Somme.
- Philpott, William. Bloody Victory.
- Sheffield, Gary. The Somme.
- Prior, Robin, and Trevor Wilson. The Somme.
- Imperial War Museums — Somme Diaries and Manuscript Collection.
- National Archives (UK) — 34th Division War Diaries.
- Lochnagar Crater Foundation — Technical and historical records.
- Wikipedia — “La Boisselle”
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