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
7773	Furmidge	Cyril Arthur	C A	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VI. A. 1.	1916-07-18
7708	Froneman	Nicholas Peter	N P	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IX. F. 4.	1916-07-16
6850	Eyden	Frederick	F	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval X. J. 4.	1916-07-18
6779	Estill	Douglas	D	Lance Corporal	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VII. F. 3.	1916-07-16
6558	Elliott	Henry	H	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval V. H. 5.	1916-07-18
6329	Dusting	Leonard	L	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval X. L. 3.	1916-07-18
5964	Downey	Thomas Arthur	T A	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XXIV. N. 10.	1916-07-18
5832	Dodd	Herbert	H	Lance Corporal	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XI. E. 1.	1916-07-16
5499	Deeley	Henry Mallinson	H M	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XXXII. C. 9.	1916-07-15
5151	Davis	Percy Frederick	P F	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VII. L. 6.	1916-07-16
5158	Davis	Theodore	T	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. E. 3.	1916-07-18
4426	Coombe	Augustus Victor	A V	Lance Corporal	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. H. 7.	1916-07-17
4404	Cook	John William Cecil	J W C	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VII. D. 2.	1916-07-15
4354	Connock	Joseph George	J G	Second Lieutenant	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XVIII. P. 10.	1916-07-19
4267	Colling	Norman	N	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XI. D. 10.	1916-07-15
4064	Coad	Edwin Albert	E A	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XXXII. I. 4.	1916-07-18
4004	Clifton	Norman Percival	N P	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XI. P. 1.	1916-08-01
3979	Clegg	Claude William	C W	Lance Corporal	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VII. E. 1.	1916-07-18
3666	Cheek	George William	G W	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IX. D. 1.	1916-07-18
3461	Carter	Alfred George	A G	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IX. H. 7.	1916-07-18
3250	Callaghan	George	G	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IV. G. 4.	1916-07-16
3139	Butcher	Frederick Claud	F C	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VI. B. 2.	1916-07-15
2740	Brown	Arthur Hugh	A H	Second Lieutenant	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XII. G. 1.	1916-07-20
2749	Brown	Cecil Pierce	C P	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. G. 5.	1916-07-15
2659	Brockwell	Ernest Frederick	E F	Lance Corporal	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. B. 7.	1916-07-16
1939	Bleasby	John Rider	J R	Sergeant	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XI. L. 9.	1916-07-16
1739	Beverley	Alfred Gordon	A G	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval V. C. 3.	1916-07-16
1448	Beeton	Eric Wilhelm	E W	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XII. J. 8.	1916-07-18
1243	Bartley	Herbert Wilfred	H W	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VIII. H. 8.	1916-07-18
929	Baird	James Caesar	J C	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval V. C. 1.	1916-07-15
605	Appleton	Robert	R	Corporal	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. F. 2.	1916-07-16
496	Anderson	Victor	V	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval II. J. 6.	1916-07-17
365	Allen	Francis	F	Private	South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XI. K. 2.	1916-07-18

Delville Wood South African National Memorial

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