DELVILLE WOOD
LONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE
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DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY
With 5 521 servicemen buried or commemorated, Delville Wood Cemetery is the third largest cemetery of the Somme Battlefield.
It is a post-war cemetery made by the concentration of several cemeteries and isolated graves of the neighbourhood. That’s why the unnamed graves represent nearly two thirds of the whole.
The unnamed graves number 3 590. There are 26 Special Memorials erected to British soldiers and 1 South African soldier, known or believed to be buried among them. Three other special memorials record the names of British soldiers, fallen in 1915 and buried in Courcelette by the Germans, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.
The last inhumations in Delville Wood Cemetery dates from 1984 when three unknown soldiers found during the building of the South African Museum were buried in Plot XIII, Row J.
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South Africans buried in Delville Wood Cemetery
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Most represented divisions
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14th (Light) Division Clearing and taking of Delville Wood |
7th Division Delville Wood / Attacks on Ginchy |
9th (Scottish) Division Taking of Longueval/Delville Wood |
5th Division Longueval-Delville Wood/Attacks on Guillemont -Taking of Falfemont Farm |
Most represented units
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King's Royal Rifles Corps |
South African Infantry |
Royal Welsh Fusiliers |
London Regiment |
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Royal Fusiliers |
Royal Warwickshire Regiment |
Northumberland Fusiliers |
Manchester Regiment |
Delville Wood Cemetery "floppy map"
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