IWM - The mine under German front line positions at Hawthorn Redoubt is fired 10 minutes before the assault at Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916.
45,000 pounds of ammonal exploded. The mine caused a crater 130 feet across by 58 feet deep.
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