Delville Wood South African National Memorial

South Africa's national memorial to its First World War dead, on the site of the Battle of Delville Wood (15 July - 3 September 1916), where the 1st South African Infantry Brigade suffered over 80% casualties defending the wood. Designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculptor Alfred Turner, inaugurated 1926; a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2023 as part of the Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front). Delville Wood Cemetery (CWGC), containing the graves of South African and other Commonwealth dead recovered from the battlefield, stands on the same ground behind the memorial; most Delville Wood dead have no known grave and are commemorated instead on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme (see Memorial #4).

Location: Delville Wood, near Longueval, Somme, France

Address: Delville Wood, 80360 Longueval, France

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#	Last Name	First Name	Initials	Rank	Regiment	Panel	Date of Death
13949	Loverock	Menyn Coote	M C	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval II. I. 8.	1916-07-19
14047	Lupton	Robert	R	Sergeant	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VIII. B. 2.	1916-07-16
14381	Madden	Charles	C	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IX. F. 8.	1916-07-18
14539	Maherry	Johannes Jacobus	J J	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IX. E. 5.	1916-07-15
14910	Mandy	Leslie Morley	L M	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IV. A. 2.	1916-07-17
15916	McDONALD	Allen James	A J	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. H. 5.	1916-07-18
16172	McLEROTH	Fergus David	F D	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VIII. I. 9.	1916-07-16
18336	Nash	James Yeatman	J Y	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval X. K. 1.	1916-07-14
18367	Naylor	Reginald	R	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. L. 7.	1916-07-18
18602	Newberry	Claude	C	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. L. 10.	1916-08-01
18631	Newton	Ellis Alban	E A	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VIII. I. 8.	1916-07-16
19775	Patterson	Theodore E	T E	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IX. K. 8.	1916-07-16
19857	Pearce	Arthur	A	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. B. 5.	1916-07-18
19975	Perkins	Joseph Henry	J H	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XI. P. 3.	1916-07-16
20796	Pulford	Horace	H	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XI. L. 7.	1916-07-18
20956	Rafter	Edward Warrwick	E W	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XVIII. P. 9.	1916-07-19
21560	Roberts	Alfred Eben	A E	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IX. J. 4.	1916-07-18
21763	Rogerson	Sidney Charles	S C	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VIII. K. 10.	1916-07-16
22530	Scott	Geoffrey Lawrence	G L	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. G. 6.	1916-07-18
23674	Sneddon	Livingstone Hastie	L H	Company Sergeant Major	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VII. I. 3.	1916-07-19
23774	Somerset	Francis Henry	F H	Second Lieutenant	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VI. I. 2.	1916-07-18
24404	Stuart	Charles Henry	C H	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IV. H. 10.	1916-07-18
24713	Taljaard	John James	J J	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. L. 6.	1916-07-18
24924	Tennant	William Hawthorn	W H	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VI. L. 3.	1916-07-16
24983	Theobald	Wilfred C R	W C R	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VI. L. 2.	1916-07-18
25192	Thorburn	Robert Brown	R B	Lieutenant	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval II. G. 10.	1916-07-18
25594	Tubbs	William Henry	W H	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval V. E. 10.	1916-07-17
26136	Unknown Soldier	Unknown Soldier		Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VIII. I. 10.	1916-07-15
26516	Van Blerk	Cecil	C	Lance Corporal	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IV. C. 8.	1916-07-18
27575	Wales	William Theodore Robson	W T R	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval II. I. 9.	1916-07-15
27594	Walker	John Blackadder	J B	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval I. B. 3.	1916-07-18
28567	Willson	William Edward	W E	Company Sergeant Major	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XXXI. C. 4.	1916-07-18
28766	Wood	Ernest	E	Lance Corporal	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VIII. D. 7.	1916-07-18

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