What the records say
- When
- 1 Jul 1916
- Kind
- Explosion
- Coordinates
- 50.02° N, 2.70° E
- Description
- explosive-packed mine
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Mit der Sprengung der Lochnagar-Mine setzt die Schlacht an der Somme ein, die zur verlustreichsten Schlacht im Ersten Weltkrieg werden wird”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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