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    1km 0.6miles Delville Wood    The Battle of Delville Wood (15 July – 3 September 1916) was a series of engagements in the 1916 Battle of the Somme in...
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    The Battle of Delville Wood was fought from 14 July to 3 September 1916, one of the twelve battles of the Somme in 1916. It was fought by the British...
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    Battle of Delville Wood was an operation to secure the British right flank, while the centre advanced to capture the higher-lying areas of High Wood and...
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  • Albert Gill (category Burials at Delville Wood Cemetery)
    On 27 July 1916 at Battle of Delville Wood on the Somme, France, the enemy made a very strong counterattack on the right flank of the battalion and rushed...
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    The Delville Wood South African National Memorial is a World War I memorial, located in Delville Wood, near the commune of Longueval, in the Somme department...
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  • in Glasnevin, Ireland Battle of Delville Wood, an engagement in the 1916 Battle of the Somme in the First World War Delville Wood South African National...
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    1st South African Infantry Brigade (category Infantry brigades of South Africa in World War II)
    and on the Western Front, most famously the Battle of Delville Wood. It was reactivated at the start of the Second World War as a South African formation...
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    the various Battles of Delville Wood. The high proportion of unknown graves probably reflects lengthy period which elapsed before many of the bodies were...
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  • since become part of the nation's consciousness, and are still commemorated today - the Battle of Delville Wood and the sinking of the troopship SS Mendi...
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    Harold Ackroyd (category British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. On 19 July he was presented at the three days of fighting at Delville Wood which became the graveyard of the 53rd...
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    This is the order of battle for the Battle of the Somme. The Battle of the Somme was an offensive fought on the Western Front during World War I from 1...
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    advance the right flank of the Fourth Army and eliminate a salient further north at Delville Wood. German defences ringed the wood and had observation over...
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    battalions saw action at the Battle of Mont Sorrel in June 1916, the Battle of Delville Wood in September 1916 and the Battle of Guillemont in September 1916...
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    Western Front. The most costly battle that the South African forces on the Western Front fought in was the Battle of Delville Wood in 1916. (See South African...
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  • Wood and the Battle of Delville Wood, and in the Arras Offensive. It was then amalgamated with the dismounted cavalry of the Manchester-based Duke of...
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    Isle of Wight. The Mendi disaster was one of South Africa's worst tragedies of the Great War, second perhaps only to the Battle of Delville Wood. The...
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    14th (Light) Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
    Somme Battle of Delville Wood – August – September 1916 Battle of Flers-Courcelette – September 1916 Battle of Arras (1917) The First Battle of the Scarpe...
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    Carpinus betulus (category Flora of Europe)
    tree that survived the devastation of the Battle of Delville Wood in 1916. It is preserved as part of the Delville Wood South African National Memorial near...
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    Company's Garden (category History of Cape Town)
    Dellville Wood Memorial Garden, which commemorates the World War I Battle of Delville Wood in France, in which a predominantly South African force of more...
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  • during the Battle of Delville Wood. In 1939, at the start of World War II there were 490 pupils in the school and during the six years of war, 457 Old...
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  • Western Front. The most costly battle that the South African forces on the Western Front fought in was the Battle of Delville Wood in 1916. (See South African...
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    Miles Dempsey (category Commanders of the Legion of Merit)
    part of the 99th Brigade of the 2nd Division. Dempsey, serving as a platoon commander in D Company, first saw action during the Battle of Delville Wood in...
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    Union Defence Force (South Africa) (category Military history of South Africa)
    Hospital were raised and sent to the front. The Battle of Delville Wood in 1916 was the most costly battle fought by the South African Overseas Expeditionary...
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    theatres of combat the fighting was mobile and often involved set-piece battles and cavalry charges. The Eastern Front often took thousands of casualties...
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  • Chitral Expedition Battle of Colenso Battle of Crete Operation Crusader Siege of Delhi Battle of Delville Wood Dieppe Raid First Battle of El Alamein First...
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    the right flank the British line formed a salient at Longueval and Delville Wood, which ran west to Pozières and south to Maltz Horn Farm, the junction...
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  • 41st Brigade (United Kingdom) (category Infantry brigades of the British Army)
    Attack on Bellewaarde 25 September 1916 Battle of the Somme: Battle of Delville Wood 13–30 August Battle of Flers–Courcelette 15–16 September 1917 German...
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    the Battle of Delville Wood in 1916 – of the 3,000 men from the brigade who entered the wood, only 768 emerged unscathed. Another tragic loss of life...
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    forced tens of thousands to flee into China. Battle of Delville Wood – British launched new attacks on the western side of Delville Wood but neither side...
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    Battle of Mont Sorrel in June 1916, the Battle of Delville Wood in July 1916 and the Battle of Guillemont in September 1916 as well as the Battle of Flers–Courcelette...
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