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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

south of Bapaume, to the east of Martinpuich, west of Lesbœufs and to the north-east of Delville Wood. The village is on the D 197 from Longueval to Ligny...

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...

High Wood failed, due to the German success in holding on to the north end of Longueval and parts of Delville Wood, from which attacks on High Wood could...

list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are...

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...

of the battlefield more easily. South African Brigade HQ location memorial in Delville Wood. Military Artist drawing of the Battle of Delville Wood,...

The Mametz Wood Memorial commemorates an engagement of the 38th (Welsh) Division of the British Army during the First Battle of the Somme in France in...

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...

Scottish were sent to France. Here they took part in the Battle of Delville Wood as part of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. In the days between 15 July and...

Longueval to the south-east. Delville Wood lay 3,500 yd (2.0 mi; 3.2 km) to the east. Before the Battle of the Somme the wood was behind the German second...

succeeding days. While the rest of 2nd Division attacked at the Battle of Guillemont on 30–31 July, 22nd RF was back in Delville Wood, where Lt-Col Barker reorganised...

led the battles for Longueval and Delville Wood between 14 July and 3 September 1916. The rapid advance of his corps in the southern sector of the Somme...

crosses made from the remains of the trees at the Battle of Delville Wood. Eustace Hill did not approve of contraception and converted to Catholicism in 1938...

Rawlinson to concentrate on the centre between High Wood and Delville Wood as well as the villages of Guillemont and Ginchy. The plan was to maintain the...

1915. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at Delville Wood, part of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. His citation read: For most conspicuous...

to France, where it took part in many battles between 1916 and 1918, including the famous Battle of Delville Wood. During its time on the Western Front...

Battle of Delville Wood commenced. On 30 November 1916 he was appointed as general officer commanding, the 9th (Scottish) Division with the rank of major-general...

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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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2007 The South Africans at Delville Wood, General history of the 1st South African Infantry Brigade involved in the battle, accessed 9 February 2017...

command of the 2nd Ox and Bucks (the 52nd). He led the battalion in many battles on the Western Front including on the Somme battlefield at Delville Wood, Guillemont...

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...

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...