DELVILLE WOOD

LONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE

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William Frederick FAULDS, V.C.

(1895-1950)

1^stSouth African Infantry Regiment

18th-20th July 1916.

A bombing party came under very heavy rifle and machine-gun fire and the majority were killed or wounded, including the lieutenant in charge, who lay unable to move midway between the two lines of trench. In full daylight Private Faulds, accompanied by two other men, climbed over the parapet, ran out, picked up the officer and carried him back. Two days later private Faulds went out alone, under intense artillery fire, and brought in a wounded man and then rejoined his platoon.