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	First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of Delville Wood, 1916
		A subsidiary attack of the Somme Offensive, and fought from July 15 until 3 September 1916, the Battle of Delville Wood saw the capture of the wood that had been skirted during the Battle of Bazentin Ridge when Longueval fell to the British on 9 July.
		The task of capturing the wood was handed to the South African Brigade of some 3,150 men, attached to the 9th Scottish Division.
		Delville Wood remained the most costly action the South African Brigade fought on the Western Front.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/delvillewood.htm (379 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Delville Wood
		Delville Wood (in French, Bois d'Elville) is a small forest adjacent to the village of Longueval in the Somme département of northern France.
		The wood was the scene of an intense battle between British and German forces during the 1916 Battle of the Somme.
		Consequently the wood changed hands a number of times before it was finally secured by the British on 3 September during the Battle of Guillemont, though the Germans retained a hold on the eastern edge that wasn't relinquished until the British advance during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on 15 September.
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Delville_Wood (461 words)

	CWGC :: Cemetery Details
		Delville Wood Cemetery is east of the village and on the south side of the road from Longueval to Ginchy.
		Delville Wood was a tract of woodland, nearly 1 kilometre square, the western edge of which touched the village of Longueval in the Somme.
		The wood now formed a salient in the line, with Waterlot Farm and Mons Wood on the south flank still in German hands, and, owing to the height of the trees, no close artillery support was possible for defence.
	www.cwgc.org /search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=61100&mode=1 (445 words)

	Delville Wood South African National Memorial
		In Delville Wood the three Battalions employed in the capture and defence of the Wood were all but completely destroyed.
		Delville Wood is east of the village and on the south side of the road from Longueval to Ginchy.
		The Memorial is located in the centre of Delville Wood, with a large Museum to the rear, built in the late 1980s, which follows the story of the South Africans from WW1 to Korea.
	www.somme-1916.com /site01.htm (428 words)

	Delville Wood (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Battle of Delville Wood was a fierce and complex Battle involving many units, from Germany, France, British and South African Forces.
		Delville Wood was the second objective for the attack of the 9th Division, part of XII Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General Walter Congreve VC, in the the famous dawn attack of the 14th July against German Forces occupying the Bazentin Ridge.
		From end to end Delville Wood was littered, and, in many places, heaped with dead, fallen in the the bitter hand to hand fighting.
	www.colwyn-bayrwf.org.uk /delville_wood.htm (375 words)

	The Legends and Traditions of the Great War: Delville Wood
		During the night of 16/17 July the north-west corner of Delville Wood was subjected to an Allied artillery barrage, in order to enable the combined attack launched by the 27th Brigade and 1st South African Infantry Regiment to be initiated by dawn.
		The woods both to my front east and rear north are hill of snipers with MG [machine guns] who have killed a great many officers and men and the trench must be kept to as they are [very] dangerous.
		Subsequently captured at Delville Wood, he proved to be a reluctant prisoner-of-war and endeavoured to escape, but was unsuccessful.
	www.worldwar1.com /heritage/delville.htm (11074 words)

	Delville Wood at AllExperts
		Remains of a German trench in Delville Wood, September 1916.
		The wood was the scene of an intense battle between British Empire and German forces during the 1916 Battle of the Somme.
		Many thousands now visit Delville Wood annually to see the South African National Memorial, the museum and visitors centre, which commemorate the sacrifice of 25,000 South Africans in the conflicts of the 20th century.
	en.allexperts.com /e/d/de/delville_wood.htm (564 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal - The Lessons of Delville Wood
		Delville Wood is slightly less than a mile square and is criss-crossed by open avenues, or ‘rides’.
		On the 18th a bombardment began at 8 am which was to last for seven-and-a-half hours resulting in the obliteration of the defences and the wood’s reduction to a shambles of churned earth and splinters.
		Possibly the greatest lesson of Delville Wood was that the fledgeling Union of South Africa could stand proudly alongside its allies in the cause of freedom.
	www.rapidttp.com /milhist/vol061iu.html (4135 words)

	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France
		The wood was then held until the end of April 1918 when it was lost during the German advance, but was retaken by the 38th (Welsh) Division on the following 28 August.
		Delville Wood Cemetery was made after the Armistice, when graves were brought in from a few small cemeteries and isolated sites, and from the battlefields.
		Commonwealth graves from the following were concentrated into Delville Wood Cemetery: Angle Wood Cemetery, Ginchy, was in an "excavated shell-hole" in Angle Wood, to the North-West of Maurepas; and in it were buried 27 British soldiers (mainly of the London Regiment); Battery Copse Cemetery, Curlu, was between Curlu and Maurepas.
	www.ww1cemeteries.com /ww1frenchcemeteries/delvillewood.htm (421 words)

	The Patriot Files (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Delville Wood is a name, even now, full of sadness and the suppressed agony of thousands who had to make its acquaintance.
		The officers and senior N.C.O.'s had got the hang of things and knew roughly the position of the other troops in the neighbourhood and of the enemy, who seemed quite a good distance away immediately in front, though away to the right he was considerably closer to the line.
		There was no reason at all why the wood should not have been recaptured completely, especially as, on looking through our supplies, we could not muster more than 500 rounds of rifle ammunition and thirty bombs.
	www.patriotfiles.com /print.php?sid=408 (2121 words)

	First World War.com - The Western Front Today - South African Memorial, Delville Wood
		In 1916 the wood known as Bois d'Elville, near Longueval (9 miles from Albert), (and christened 'Devil's Wood' by allied troops) was a major German defensive feature.
		The South African Brigade was attached to the 9th Scottish Division and given the task of capturing the wood in July 1916 as part of the Somme Offensive.
		Hand to hand fighting ensued until the South Africans were relieved on the night of 19 July, having lost 766 dead among the four battalions alone.
	www.firstworldwar.com /today/delvillewood.htm (378 words)

	SA remembers Delville Wood - SouthAfrica.info
		South Africa is commemorating the Battle of Delville Wood in France this week, in remembrance of the country's soldiers who died there during the two World Wars.
		According to the South African Defence Force, a large number of fl and white soldiers died in Delville Wood on 16 July 1916 when they were ordered to defend the area.
		A brigade consisting of 3 200 men entered the wood, which was surrounded by the enemy on three sides.
	www.southafrica.info /what_happening/news/delville-wood.htm (264 words)

	TheWesternFront_WW1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From Mametz wood the British launched a new attack at Delville Wood on july 15, 1916.
		Delville Wood was defended with a network of trenches.
		Three battalions of the South African brigade were to attack Delville Wood.
	groups.msn.com /TheWesternFrontWW1/delvillewood.msnw (156 words)

	The Weeping Cross
		On 15 July, the SA Brigade, under Maj-Gen.Lukin, was ordered to clear the d'elville woods, north-east of the village of enemy soldiers.
		On the night of the 17th/18th the woods were subjected to a bombardment which devastated the forest.
		A memorial is erected next to the historic wood just outside the village of Longueval, with replicas in the Company's Garden in Cape Town and in front of the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
	www.encounter.co.za /article/31.html (333 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal - The South Africans at Delville Wood (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The woods both to my front east and rear north are full of snipers with MG [machine guns] who have killed a great many officers and men and the trench must be kept to as they are [very] dangerous.
		In his book Delville Wood (p 70) Mr Uys states that Walter Hill was one of only two junior officers surviving in B Coy of 2 Bn, and that this company was virtually annihilated.
		Although, as stated on p 53, Lt Col Thackeray was officially superseded as overall commander of South African forces at Delville Wood by Lt Col Dawson, the former remained in effective command, owing to the fact that Lt Col Dawson became separated from Thackeray's forces.
	www.rapidttp.com /milhist/vol072iu.html (11563 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal - The South Africans at Delville Wood
		The woods both to my front east and rear north are full of snipers with MG [machine guns] who have killed a great many officers and men and the trench must be kept to as they are [very] dangerous.
		In his book Delville Wood (p 70) Mr Uys states that Walter Hill was one of only two junior officers surviving in B Coy of 2 Bn, and that this company was virtually annihilated.
		Although, as stated on p 53, Lt Col Thackeray was officially superseded as overall commander of South African forces at Delville Wood by Lt Col Dawson, the former remained in effective command, owing to the fact that Lt Col Dawson became separated from Thackeray's forces.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol072iu.html (11563 words)

	Somme : Texts : Personal Accounts : Now It Can Be Told
		In Delville Wood the South African Brigade of the 9th Division was cut to pieces, and I saw the survivors come out with few officers to lead them.
		All that was left of High Wood in the autumn of 1916 was a thin row of branch-less trees, but in July and August there were still glades under heavy foliage, until the branches were lopped off and the leaves scattered by our incessant fire.
		Other divisions followed them and found the wood stuffed with machine-guns which they had to capture through hurricanes of bullets before they crouched in craters amid dead Germans and dead English, and then were blown out like the Londoners, under shell-fire, in which no human life could stay for long.
	leoklein.com /itp/somme/texts/gibbs_1920/gibbs_1920_10.html (2475 words)

	Le Tourisme dans la Somme (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The capture of Delville Wood was essential to any further advance eastwards.
		It was assigned to the South Africans, who underwent their baptism of fire on the Western Front on 15 July 1916 ; under ferocious artillery fire - up to 400 rounds a minute - and barely protected by hastily dug trenches, their experience there was an unimaginable nightmare.
		Delville Wood, the 63-hectares site of the South African infantry division engagement in July 1916, was bought by the South African government in 1920 to build the national memorial.
	www.somme-tourisme.com /uk/decouvrir/avisiter/grandeguerre/longueval.asp (271 words)

	WW1 battlefields Somme accommodation, B&B on the Somme, Les Alouettes, Longueval, Delville Wood,Battlefield Tours
		WW1 battlefields Somme accommodation, B&B on the Somme, Les Alouettes, Longueval, Delville Wood,Battlefield Tours
		All the famous front line villages of Gommecourt, Serre, Beaumont Hamel, Thiepval, Ovillers, La Boisselle, Fricourt, Mametz, Montauban and the woods of such later ill repute like High Wood and Delville Wood are all within easy reach.
		We will be delighted to accommodate you and help with all your queries whilst staying at Les Alouettes and can even offer tours around the battlefields.
	www.lesalouettes.net (212 words)

	Herbert Flowers
		This raises an interesting connection with Herbert's nephew, John Arthur Flowers, an officer with the 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, who died in those same trenches opposite Delville Wood on either the same day, or the previous one - there is a similar conflict of information in his records.
		While perhaps, greater comfort than all was in the fact that the poor boys had given the great sacrifice of their lives for king and country.
		Herbert Flowers is buried at Delville Wood Cemetery, just a stone's throw from where he was killed.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /suelight/aaflowersh.html (1692 words)

	Somme > The Somme Revisited > The Battlefield Today > Battlefield Tour 3 > Delville Wood Cemetery and the ...
		Delville Wood Cemetery and the South African National Memorial
		From Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, follow the D20 east into Longueval and continue initially towards Guillemont. ; Fork left to Ginchy. The Cemetery and South African National Memorial are quickly reached.
		Opposite the Memorial stands Delville Wood Cemetery. Built after the 1918 Armistice, it contains mostly men killed in the summer of 1916. ; Of the 5,523 graves, 3,593 (65%) are unknown.
	www.iwm.org.uk /server/show/nav.00o003003003002 (126 words)

	First World War.com - The Western Front Today
		Also included is present-day film footage of many renowned sites and military cemeteries.
		Thus footage is included from the Menin Gate, Tyne Cot, Hooge, Sanctuary Wood and Hill 60 (among others).
		In total there are some 100 samples of modern day film clips.
	www.firstworldwar.com /today (200 words)

	M George to commemorate Delville Wood battle in France, 16 Jul
		The fierce battle of Delville Wood fought 90 years ago will be revisited when it is commemorated on Sunday, 16 July 2006, at Delville Wood in France.
		South African soldiers of all races participated in the now famous of battle of Delville Wood.
		The first South African Infantry Brigade was given the unenviable task of clearing the woods near the village of Longueval of German forces entrenched there.
	www.info.gov.za /speeches/2006/06071911451003.htm (303 words)

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		We set of in that general direction, as usual High wood was half off the edge of my map, and we had to try and identifywood lane, as it turned out it was easy, it was a slight sunken laneleadingup to the S.W. corner of High wood.
		Now high wood is very much private property with a large house and wire fencing all around.
		We sat down and it struck me how sad it wasfor the poor sods on the trip, we worked out what their itinery for the Somme was, probably New Foundland park, Thiepval Memorial, Delville wood to relieve themselves and probably a few cemeteries.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/kylet1/forthday.htm (863 words)

	Battle of the Somme: Chronology
		Davies and A. Hill both awarded the VC for their role in the Delville Wood fighting and T. Veale also gained the VC to the east of High Wood.
		German attacks at High Wood fail but they are back again in the eastern side of Delville Wood.
		This day was one of great progress for the Allies and the British began the third phase of the Battle of the Somme by advancing on a six mile front to a depth of 2,000 to 3,000 yards.
	www.ramsdale.org /timeline.htm (4086 words)

	Picardie 14-18 ::. Mémorial du bois Delville - Longueval
		Le mémorial du bois Delville a été inauguré le 10 octobre 1926 par la veuve du président Louis Botha (1862-1919).
		Situé face au Delville wood cemetery, c'est par une large et longue allée au gazon impeccable, bordée de chênes (plantés avec des glands amenés d'Afrique du Sud en 1920), que l'on accède à ce monument, dessiné par sir Herbert Baker.
		Sous le feu puissant de l'artillerie, les mitrailleuses et les contre-attaques allemandes, ces hommes vécurent un véritable enfer (Delville wood sera rebaptisé Devil wood, le bois du diable).
	www.picardie1418.com /fr/decouvrir/memoriaux/80/boisdelville.htm (406 words)

	World War 1 battlefirld tours: Arras, Somme, Ypres, Armistice war walks
		On this trip we cover the attacks on Mametz Wood by the 38th Welsh Division, using the trench maps used by RSM Charles Alexander of the 14th Welsh Regiment on the 10th July 1916, when he was severely wounded.
		After which we contine to follow the attack on High Wood, brilliantly described in 'The Hell They Called High Wood' by the late Terry Norman, using his original maps to bring the battle alive.
		From here we continue to the village of Longueval and the scene of the Battle for Delville Wood, with the 9th Scottish Division including the South African’s, so graphically described by Ian Uys in 'Delville Wood and Rollcall'.
	www.battlefieldtours.co.uk /tours1c.htm (817 words)

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