La Boisselle
Somme, France
Mentioned: 1916
Somme Sector Site of the Lochnagar mine crater, one of the most heavily documented positions on the whole Somme battlefield. Robertson's company moves up to dugouts here on September 3, 1916, the same day Mouquet Farm is first taken and lost.
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1916
- 3 September 1916… were driven out again today. – Two co’y of the 13th are up in support of them. – We moved up to our dugouts in La BOISSELLE this aft. – Quite an elaborate gallery system with about 25 ft. of head cover. The chalk …