DELVILLE WOODLONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE |
THE SOUTH AFRICAN INFANTRY BRIGADE
ROLLCALL ON THE 14th JULY 1916
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Private A.G. WAGNER
2nd SAI - Wounded
Private A.T. WAGSTAFF
3rd SAI, B Coy - Wounded on the 18th July
Killed in action near Arras (as Lance Corporal) on the 14th June 1917 (Point-du-Jour Military Cemetery)
Private H.G. WAKEFORD
2nd SAI
Private M.V. WAKEFORD
3rd SAI - Wounded
Private R.W. WAKEFORD
2nd SAI
Private J.R.C. WAKEHAM
Wounded
Private Jack WALCOTT
4th SAI - Killed on the 19th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private G.A. WALE
4th SAI - Taken prisoner on the 16th July
Second Lieutenant Aylmer Templer WALES
2nd SAI, C Coy - Died of wounds on the 17th July (Dive Copse British Cemetery)
Private W.T.R. WALES
3rd SAI, C Coy - Killed on the 15th July (Delville Wood Cemetery)
Private A.L. WALKEN
4th SAI
Private F.C. WALKER
3rd SAI - Wounded
Private G.R. WALKER
2nd SAI
Lance Corporal Harold Shaw WALKER
3rd SAI - Declared missing in action on the 1st August (Thiepval Memorial)
Private Henry William WALKER
3rd SAI - Declared missing in action on the 1st August (Thiepval Memorial)
Private J.B. WALKER
1st SAI - Killed on the 18th July (Delville Wood Cemetery)
Private J.H. WALKER
2nd SAI
Private Thomas Adrian WALKER
2nd SAI
Killed in action at Maretz on the 9th October 1918 (Naves Communal Cemetery Extension)
Corporal William Clayton WALKER
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 15th July
Private W.J. WALKER
4th SAI
Private J. WALKISS
4th SAI
Private T.A. WALL
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 16th July
Private A.E.E. WALLACE
Wounded
Private Edward WALLACE
1st SAI - Missing in action on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private G.H. WALLACE
4th SAI - Wounded
Lance Corporal John Henry WALLACE
4th SAI - Missing in action on the 19th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private Robert WALLACE
4th SAI - Killed on the 21st July (Thiepval Memorial)
Lance Corporal W. WALLACE
4th SAI - Wounded
Private W.B. WALLACE
2nd SAI
Corporal Alfred William WALLER
2nd SAI - Wounded on the 15th July
Private F. WALLIS
4th SAI - Wounded
Private C.J.L. WALSH
2nd SAI
Staff Sergeant Lionel Henry WALSH
Medical Services
Recommended for the VC and awarded the DCM for his conduct at Bernafay Wood.
Commissioned as a Second-Lieutenant in April 1917 and transferred to the 7th Bn, London Regiment.
Padre P.J. WALSHE
Roman Catholic Chaplain of the 2nd SAI
Awarded the Military Cross in September 1918. Major at the end of the War.
Private P.T. WALTERS
2nd SAI
Private W.G. WALTERS
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 16th July
Private A.E. WALTON
4th SAI
Private F. WALTON
2nd SAI
Private F.G. WALTON
2nd SAI
Private Frank WALTON
2nd SAI - Missing in action on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private F.J. WALTON
Wounded
Private W. WALTON
4th SAI
Private H. WANCKEL
2nd SAI
Killed in action (as Acting Corporal) in front the Butte of Warlencourt (Somme) on the 12th October 1916 (Warlencourt British Cemetery)
Private A.W. WANLISS
Wounded
Private A.B. WARD
1st SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Private A.C.S. WARD
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 16th July
Private Charles Robert John WARD
4th SAI
Killed in action near Arras on the 12th April 1917 (Point-du-Jour Military Cemetery)
Private Edmund Lewis WARD
2nd SAI
Killed in action (as Lance Corporal) near Arras on the 12th April 1917 (Brown's Copse Cemetery)
Private J.C. WARD
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Killed in action near Frezenberg on the 20th September 1917 (Poelcapelle British Cemetery)
Private M.B. WARD
1st SAI - Wounded and taken prisoner on the 18th July
Sergeant Philip WARD
1st SAI, A Coy - Killed on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private John WARDROP
4th SAI - Killed on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private R. WARDROP
4th SAI
Private E.C. WARMAN
2nd SAI
Private Henry Templar WARREN
2nd SAI - Killed on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Sergeant Francis WARWICK
4th SAI - Wounded
Died of wounds received near Frezenberg on the 20th September 1917 (Nine Elms British Cemetery)
Private George W. WARWICK
4th SAI - Wounded
Severely wounded at Ypres in 1917 and discharged as medically unfit.
Private Edward WATKINS
2nd SAI - Killed on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Lieutenant J.E. WATKINS
4th SAI, D Coy - Wounded
Private William WATKINS
4th SAI - Killed on the 19th July (London Cemetery and Extension, Longueval)
Private A.T. WATSON
4th SAI - Wounded
Private C.G. WATSON
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 19th July
Sergeant G. WATSON
4th SAI
Private G.B. WATSON
2nd SAI - Wounded on the 19th July
Private Henry WATSON
4th SAI, A Coy - Attached to the Trench Mortar Battery
Was of the last South African group relieved on the 20th July at Delville Wood.
Taken prisoner near gauches Wood on the 22nd March 1918.
Private J. WATSON
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner on the 19th July
Private James WATSON
3rd SAI - Killed on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private J.F. WATSON
4th SAI
Private Matthew James WATSON
1st SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Died of wounds near Arras on the 14th April 1917 (Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension)
Private W. WATSON
4th SAI
Lance Corporal W. WATSON
4th SAI
Later awarded the Meritorious Service Medal
Private W.B. WATSON
Wounded
Corporal Robert John WATT
4th SAI - Wounded
Died (as Sergeant) on the 18th October 1916 of wounds received in front the Butte de Warlencourt (Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension)
Honorable Captain Arthur Charles WEARNER
1st SAI HQ
Private Ernest WEAVER
2nd SAI
Killed in action near Arras on the 9th April 1917 (Arras Memorial)
Private WEBB
3rd SAI - Attached to the Trench Mortar Battery
Was of the last South African group relieved on the 20th July at Delville Wood.
Private A.G. WEBB
3rd SAI, B Coy - Taken prisoner
Acting Captain F.A. WEBB
4th SAI
Corporal Mattew WEBB
1st SAI - Wounded on the 16th July
Killed in action (as Second Lieutenant-lieutenant) at Gauches Wood on the 22nd March 1918 (Pozieres Memorial)
Private W. WEBB
4th SAI - Wounded
Private WEBBER
3rd SAI - Attached to the Trench Mortar Battery
Was of the last South African group relieved on the 20th July at Delville Wood.
Private E.N. WEBBER
2nd SAI
Corporal J.M. WEBBER
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner on the 19th July
Private C.H.T. WEBSTER
3rd SAI - Wounded and taken prisoner on the 19th July
Private Dudley Stanton WEBSTER
2nd SAI - Missing in action on the 15th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private Leslie Garnett WEBSTER
4th SAI - Killed on the 15th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private S.L. WEBSTER
2nd SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Private W. WEBSTER
4th SAI
Private R.W. WEIGHT
4th SAI - Wounded
Private T. WEIMER
2nd SAI - Wounded on the 17th July
Private Allan John McLean WEIR
3rd SAI - Attached to the Trench Mortar Battery - Wounded on the 15th July
Was of the last South African group relieved on the 20th July at Delville Wood.
Killed in action near Frezenberg on the 20th September 1917 (Ypres Menin Gate Memorial)
Sergeant Harry WELCH
4th SAI - Died of wounds on the 17th July (Dive Copse British Cemetery)
Private H.J. WELCH
4th SAI - Wounded
Private Cyril George WELDON
1st SAI - Killed on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private C.J. WELLS
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner on the 19th July
Acting CSM Frank W. WELLS
1st SAI - Wounded on the 17th July
Later awarded the Serbian Cross of Karageorge (1st Class with Swords)
Private H.D. WELLS
2nd SAI
Captain Tom WELSH
1st Field Ambulance, SA Medical Corps
Awarded the Military Cross for his conduct at Delville Wood and Longueval.
Killed in action near Arras on the 12th April 1917 (Athies Communal Cemetery Extension)
Private Geoffrey WENSLEY
4th SAI - Killed on the 19th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private Charles Harold Frere WENTWORTH
3rd SAI - Killed on the 19th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private R.D. WENTZEL
1st SAI - Wounded
Private E.A. WEPENER
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Private H. WEPENER
3rd SAI - Wounded
Private H.G. WEPENER
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 16th July
Private Victor Egnal WEPENER
3rd SAI, B Coy - Taken prisoner
Escaped from a work party but was recaptured.
As Major in the Imperial Light Horse, fought in North Africa in 1941, earning the DSO.
Private C.J. WEST
4th SAI - Wounded
Private T. WEST
4th SAI
Corporal WESTABY
3rd SAI - Attached to the Trench Mortar Battery
Was of the last South African group relieved on the 20th July at Delville Wood.
Corporal G.M. WESTON
1st SAI - Wounded on the 19th July
Private J. WESTHERSTONE
2nd SAI
Killed in action in front the Butte of Warlencourt (Somme) on the 12th October 1916 (Warlencourt British Cemetery)
Private A.E. WEVILL
2nd SAI
Lance Corporal H.S. WEWEGE
4th SAI - Wounded on the 19th July
Lance Corporal S.J. WEWEGE
1st SAI - Wounded on the 15th July
Private B. WHATLEY
4th SAI - Wounded
Private John Herbert WHATMORE
3rd SAI - Declared missing in action on the 1st August (Thiepval Memorial)
Private R.F. WHATMORE
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 15th July
Private Alexander WHEATLEY
3rd SAI - Declared missing in action on the 1st August (Thiepval Memorial)
Lance Corporal J.W. WHEATMAN
4th SAI
Private C. WHEELER
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 16th July
Died on the 4th May 1917 (Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey)
Lance Corporal Maurice E. WHELAN
2nd SAI, C Coy
Was of the last South African group relieved on the 20th July at Delville Wood.
Later awarded the Military Cross.
Died of wounds (as Lieutenant) on the 18th October 1918 (Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension)
Private William Fowler WHITAKER
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner on the 19th July
Private C. WHITE
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner on the 18th July
Private C. WHITE
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner
Private F. WHITE
Medical services - Wounded
Private J.A. WHITE
4th SAI
Private J.H. WHITE
4th SAI - Wounded
Private John Robert WHITE
4th SAI, C Coy
Killed in action in front the Butte of Warlencourt (Somme) on the 15th October 1916 (Thiepval Memorial)
Private Lawson Alfred WHITE
4th SAI - Wounded
Killed in action at Marrieres Wood on the 24th March 1918 (Pozieres Memorial)
Private R.G. WHITE
4th SAI
Private R.J.G. WHITE
1st SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Private Thomas WHITE
4th SAI, A Coy - Wounded
Private F.H. WHITEHEAD
4th SAI
Private G.A. WHITEHEAD
4th SAI
Private W. WHITEHEAD
4th SAI
Killed in action near Frezenberg on the 20th September 1917 (Ypres Menin Gate Memorial)
Private A. WHITELEY
4th SAI
Private L. WHITTAKER
Wounded
Private J. WHITTINGTON
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner on the 19th July
Corporal G.H. WHITTOCK
1st SAI, C Coy - Wounded on the 16th July
Private J.H.D.G. WHITTON
1st SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Private C. WICKS
2nd SAI - Wounded
Private Oswald James WICKS
2nd SAI
Killed in action near Arras on the 12th April 1917 (Brown's Copse Cemetery)
Lance Corporal Percival George WICKS
2nd SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Killed in action near Arras on the 12th April 1917 (Brown's Copse Cemetery)
Private C. WIEHAHN
4th SAI
Private Arthur Garnard WIGGILL
2nd SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Corporal John Hobson WIGHT
2nd SAI, C Coy - Wounded on the 18th July
Private Henry John WIGLEY
1st SAI - Wounded on the 16th July
Killed in action in front the Butte de Warlencourt on the 18th October 1916 (Thiepval Memorial)
Private J.F. WIID
1st SAI
Private H.H. WILDE
2nd SAI
Private James WILDE
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 15th July
Private Harry WILES
1st SAI, C Coy - Killed on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Corporal Frances Hill WILEY
2nd SAI, C Coy - Wounded
Commissionned in November 1916.
Wounded again on the 20th September 1917 near Frezenberg.
Died at Woking Barracks on the 3rd July 1918 (Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey)
Corporal Francis WILKIE
2nd SAI, C Coy - Wounded on the 18th July
Wounded again on the 15th October 1917
Awarded the DCM for his conduct at Marrieres Wood on the 24th March 1918. Company Sergeant Major at the end of the War. Awarded the French Croix de Guerre and the Belgian Croix de Guerre.
Private W.J. WILKIE
2nd SAI
Private H.L. WILKINSON
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner on the 19th July
Private L.A. WILKINSON
Wounded
Private R. WILKINSON
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner
Private Walter Boyd WILKS
3rd SAI, D Coy - Wounded on the 17th July
Lance Corporal G.A. WILL
1st SAI - Wounded
Killed in action (as Corporal) near Arras on the 12th April 1917 (Brown's Copse Cemetery)
Private J.A. WILL
4th SAI
Killed in action near Arras on the 9th April 1917 (Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery)
Private J.A. WILLARD
Wounded
Private W.F. WILLARD
2nd SAI
Later awarded the Military Medal.
Private William WILLCOCKS
3rd SAI, D Coy - Attached to the Trench Mortar Battery
Was of the last South African group relieved on the 20th July at Delville Wood.
Recommanded for a mention in despatches for his conduct at Delville Wood (no retained).
Later awarded the Military Medal and Bar. Corporal at the end of the War.
Private Richard WILLETT
Served as VILLETT
3rd SAI - Declared missing in action on the 1st August (Thiepval Memorial)
Private A.B. WILLIAMS
2nd SAI
Private A.C. WILLIAMS
2nd SAI - Wounded
Private A.H. WILLIAMS
1st SAI
Private D.A. WILLIAMS
3rd SAI, C Coy - Wounded
Private E.B. WILLIAMS
1st SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Private Frederick Henry Hermann WILLIAMS
2nd SAI, D Coy - Killed on the 19th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Lance Corporal G.S. WILLIAMS
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Corporal Geoffrey Watkin WILLIAMS
3rd SAI, C Coy
Was of the last South African group relieved on the 20th July at Delville Wood.
Recommanded for the DCM and a mention in despatches and awarded the Military Medal for his conduct at Delville Wood.
Lance Corporal Hugh WILLIAMS
4th SAI
Died of Wounds (as Second Lieutenant) on the 17th April 1917 (Etaples Military Cemetery)
Private John WILLIAMS
4th SAI - Wounded
Missing in action (as Sergeant) at Marrieres Wood on the 24th March 1918 (Pozieres Memorial)
Private L.G. WILLIAMS
3rd SAI - Wounded
Private Richard WILLIAMS
2nd SAI - Missing in action on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private Robert Ball WILLIAMS
4th SAI - Killed on the 20th July (Sucrerie Military Cemetery)
Private S.R. WILLIAMS
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 17th July
Private W.H. WILLIAMS
1st SAI, A Coy
Was of the last South African group relieved on the 20th July at Delville Wood.
Recommanded for a mention in despatches for his conduct at Delville Wood (no retained)
Private W.J. WILLIAMS
3rd SAI - Wounded
Lance Corporal W.T. WILLIAMS
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner
Private Walter WILLIAMS
1st SAI - Missing in action on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private H.J. WILLIAMSON
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Private James WILLIAMSON
2nd SAI, B Coy - Attached to the Trench Mortar Battery - Wounded
Was of the last South African group relieved on the 20th July at Delville Wood.
Private WILLIS
1st SAI, B Coy
Private J.B. WILLIS
2nd SAI
Private Frank WILLSHIRE
3rd SAI, B Coy - Killed on the 19th July (Sucrerie Military Cemetery)
Company Sergeant Major W.E. WILLSON
1st SAI - Missing in action on the 18th July (Delville Wood Cemetery)
Corporal J. WILMOT
3rd SAI, C Coy - Wounded
Private A.H. WILSON
2nd SAI
Lance Corporal Alexander Mallock WILSON
2nd SAI - Killed on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private Arthur John WILSON
3rd SAI, B Coy
Was of the last South African group relieved on the 20th July at Delville Wood.
Missing in action (as Lance Corporal) at Marrieres Wood on the 24th March 1918 (Pozieres Memorial)
Lance Corporal D. WILSON
4th SAI
Private E.C. WILSON
2nd SAI - Wounded
Private H.R. WILSON
4th SAI
Company Sergeant Major James WILSON
4th SAI
Recommended for DCM and awarded the Military Cross for his conduct at Delville Wood and Longueval.
Later mentioned in despatches.
Killed in action (as RSM) at Maretz on the 9th October 1918 (Bertry Communal Cemetery)
Private Neil WILSON
4th SAI
Missing in action at Marrieres Wood on the 24th March 1918 (Pozieres Memorial)
Private T.G. WILSON
Wounded
Private T.Y. WILSON
Wounded
Private W.H. WILSON
2nd SAI
Private J.T. WINNINGTON
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 16th July
Private C. WINTER
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner on the 18th July
Private J.B. WINTERSCHERDER
2nd SAI
Private A.J.M. WIR
Wounded
Private Thomas Henry WISE
1st SAI - Killed on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private John L. WITHERSPOON
2nd SAI, A Coy
Was of the last South African group relieved on the 20th July at Delville Wood. Wounded on the 21st July by artillery fire.
Private H.P. WOLFSON
4th SAI
Private W. WOLHUTER
Wounded
Private F.G. WOLMARANS
Wounded
Private D. WOLSEY
1st SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Private W.H. WOLSTENHOLME
2nd SAI - Wounded
Lance Corporal E. WOOD
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner on the 19th July
Lance Corporal Ernest WOOD
3rd SAI - Killed on the 18th July (Delville Wood Cemetery)
Private Henry Evelyn WOOD
2nd SAI
Killed in action in front the Butte de Warlencourt on the 12th October 1916 (Thiepval Memorial)
Private John Buckley WOOD
2nd SAI - Killed on the 15th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private L.M. WOOD
2nd SAI
Private R. WOOD
4th SAI
Private S.V. WOOD
2nd SAI - Taken prisoner on the 18th July
Private W. WOOD
2nd SAI
Corporal W.H. WOODBORNE
4th SAI
Died on the 19th August 1917 (Cape Town - Maitland - Cemetery)
Private Edward Turner WOODBURN
3rd SAI - Killed on the 16th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Lance Corporal G.V. WOODHEAD
2nd SAI
Private C.A. WOODS
4th SAI - Wounded
Private F. WOODS
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner on the 18th July
Private P. WOODS
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 16th July
Lance Corporal T. WOODS
1st SAI, C Coy - Attached to the Trench Mortar Battery
Was of the last South African group relieved on the 20th July at Delville Wood.
Private S.J.B. WOOF
1st SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Died of wounds on the 24th October 1918 (Mont-Huon Military Cemetery, Le Tréport)
Private Albert Henry WOOLCOT
4th SAI - Killed on the 18th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Lance Corporal M. WOOLF
1st SAI, C Coy - Wounded on the 16th July
Private W.L.N. WORDON
4th SAI - Wounded
Lance Corporal W. WORSLEY
3rd SAI - Taken prisoner on the 19th July
Private A.J. WRIGHT
1st SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Later awarded the Military Medal.
Private C.J. WRIGHT
4th SAI - Wounded
Killed on the 2nd March 1917 near Arras (Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras)
Private George WRIGHT
3rd SAI - Died of wounds on the 18th July (Kensal Green - All Souls'- Cemetery, London)
Private Harold Barber WRIGHT
1st SAI - Died of wounds on the 18th July (La Neuville British Cemetery, Corbie)
Private J.A. WRIGHT
2nd SAI - Wounded
Private J.F. WRIGHT
4th SAI - Taken prisoner on the 18th July
Lance Corporal J.H. WRIGHT
Wounded
Private John WRIGHT
3rd SAI - Declared missing in action on the 1st August (Thiepval Memorial)
Private Leslie Milne WRIGHT
3rd SAI
Private P.G. WRIGHT
Wounded
Private S. WRIGHT
4th SAI - Wounded
Sergeant William James WRIGHT
2nd SAI - Killed on the 15th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private W.R. WRIGHT
1st SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Lance Corporal Percy Venables WRIGHTSON
3rd SAI - Wounded on the 16th July
Killed in action (as Corporal) near Arras on the 9th April 1917 (Bailleul Road East Cemetery)
Private E.W. WROTH
2nd SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Private J.F. WUD
Wounded
Private Lawrence WYBROW
2nd SAI - Missing in action on the 15th July (Thiepval Memorial)
Private W.D.P. WYER
4th SAI - Wounded
Private D.L. WYLIE
4th SAI
Private David WYLLEY
1st SAI - Wounded on the 18th July
Killed in action near Arras on the 6th April 1917 (Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension)
Private William A. WYLLIE
4th SAI
Missing in action on the 13th April 1918 at Messines (Ypres Menin Gate Memorial)
Private J.J. WYNNE
4th SAI