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The earth settles following the explosion of the mine beneath Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt on July 1, 1916. Recent research on the Hawthorn Ridge crater from World War I has revealed how an early detonation turned into a strategic blunder for the British, enabling German forces to strengthen their defenses.
But the detonation of the mine at Hawthorn Ridge, famously captured by film director Geoffrey Malins, took place 10 minutes before the whistles blew at 7.30 am. The early detonation, later described as a ‘colossal blunder’, alerted the Germans the infantry attack was imminent and gave them enough time to take up defensive positions in the newly-formed crater, leading to heavy losses among the attacking British troops..
The researchers were able to pinpoint the epicenters of the two separate mine detonation locations, and identified 27 post-explosion impact shell homes, fired from British lines as they tried to dislodge the Germans. They also found an unexploded British shrapnel artillery shell with its time-fuse still intact, representative of the large number that failed to explode on the Somme, and an empty ammunition box for a Vickers Machine Gun, reflecting the period of British occupation of the site.
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