DELVILLE WOOD

LONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE

The Museum

THE ENTRANCE

The first view on entering the Museum, is an engraved glass window depicting Delville Wood after the battle. The inscription at the bottom of this panel is taken from the speech delivered by General B.M. Hertzog at the inauguration of the South African National War Memorial on 10 October 1926 :

Listening to the far-off call of a World in distress, imploring aid in the name of Mankind, of national Freedom and of World Peace, they responded to the Appeal, and marched to the battlefields on land, sea and in the air.

Noctural view

In the entrance are displayed the Rolls of Honor of the 23656 South African fallen during the two world wars.

Second World War Roll of Honour

A replica of cathedral tablet is exposed at the end of the entrance.

These tablets were erected in several cathedrals in France and Belgium in the twenties and thirties.

Designed by H.P. Cart de Lafontaine, these tablets display the Royal Coat of Arms and those of Australia, Canada, India, Newfoundland and South Africa.