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
365	Allen	Francis	F	Private	2nd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XI. K. 2.	1916-07-18
496	Anderson	Victor	V	Private	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval II. J. 6.	1916-07-17
605	Appleton	Robert	R	Corporal	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. F. 2.	1916-07-16
929	Baird	James Caesar	J C	Private	3rd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval V. C. 1.	1916-07-15
1243	Bartley	Herbert Wilfred	H W	Private	2nd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VIII. H. 8.	1916-07-18
1448	Beeton	Eric Wilhelm	E W	Private	4th South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XII. J. 8.	1916-07-18
1739	Beverley	Alfred Gordon	A G	Private	4th South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval V. C. 3.	1916-07-16
1939	Bleasby	John Rider	J R	Sergeant	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XI. L. 9.	1916-07-16
2659	Brockwell	Ernest Frederick	E F	Lance Corporal	2nd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. B. 7.	1916-07-16
2740	Brown	Arthur Hugh	A H	Second Lieutenant	4th South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XII. G. 1.	1916-07-20
2749	Brown	Cecil Pierce	C P	Private	4th South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. G. 5.	1916-07-15
3139	Butcher	Frederick Claud	F C	Private	3rd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VI. B. 2.	1916-07-15
3250	Callaghan	George	G	Private	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IV. G. 4.	1916-07-16
3461	Carter	Alfred George	A G	Private	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IX. H. 7.	1916-07-18
3666	Cheek	George William	G W	Private	2nd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IX. D. 1.	1916-07-18
3979	Clegg	Claude William	C W	Lance Corporal	4th South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VII. E. 1.	1916-07-18
4004	Clifton	Norman Percival	N P	Private	3rd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XI. P. 1.	1916-08-01
4064	Coad	Edwin Albert	E A	Private	3rd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XXXII. I. 4.	1916-07-18
4267	Colling	Norman	N	Private	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XI. D. 10.	1916-07-15
4354	Connock	Joseph George	J G	Second Lieutenant	2nd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XVIII. P. 10.	1916-07-19
4404	Cook	John William Cecil	J W C	Private	3rd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VII. D. 2.	1916-07-15
4426	Coombe	Augustus Victor	A V	Lance Corporal	4th South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. H. 7.	1916-07-17
5151	Davis	Percy Frederick	P F	Private	4th South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VII. L. 6.	1916-07-16
5158	Davis	Theodore	T	Private	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. E. 3.	1916-07-18
5499	Deeley	Henry Mallinson	H M	Private	2nd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XXXII. C. 9.	1916-07-15
5832	Dodd	Herbert	H	Lance Corporal	4th South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XI. E. 1.	1916-07-16
5964	Downey	Thomas Arthur	T A	Private	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XXIV. N. 10.	1916-07-18
6329	Dusting	Leonard	L	Private	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval X. L. 3.	1916-07-18
6558	Elliott	Henry	H	Private	3rd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval V. H. 5.	1916-07-18
6779	Estill	Douglas	D	Lance Corporal	3rd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VII. F. 3.	1916-07-16
6850	Eyden	Frederick	F	Private	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval X. J. 4.	1916-07-18
7708	Froneman	Nicholas Peter	N P	Private	4th South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IX. F. 4.	1916-07-16
7773	Furmidge	Cyril Arthur	C A	Private	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VI. A. 1.	1916-07-18
7967	Gee	Harry Herbert Allan	H H A	Major	2nd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VII. L. 5.	1916-07-19
8246	Glazebrook	Francis Ignatius	F I	Lance Corporal	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IV. G. 6.	1916-07-16
8359	Goodacre	William Hewlett	W H	Private	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XII. A. 7.	1916-07-18
8841	Groenewald	William Adrian	W A	Private	4th South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VII. L. 4.	1916-07-18
9202	Hare	Victor	V	Private	4th South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VIII. B. 1.	1916-07-16
10032	Hodge	John Stevens	J S	Private	4th South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VII. L. 7.	1916-07-16
10141	Hollingworth	John Manson	J M	Second Lieutenant	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IV. I. 7.	1916-07-16
10382	Howell	Joseph Leigh	J L	Lance Sergeant	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XV. L. 4.	1916-07-16
10436	Hudson	Eber	E	Private	2nd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XXIII. N. 9.	1916-07-15
10619	Hutton	John Wilmot	J W	Private	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval IX. K. 7.	1916-07-18
10740	Isemonger	Leslie William	L W	Private	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval XI. L. 2.	1916-07-18
10745	Israel	Gerald Raymond	G R	Lance Corporal	3rd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval Sp. Mem. B. 6.	1916-07-16
11424	Jones DSO CMG MID	Frank Aubrey	F A	Lieutenant Colonel	4th South African Infantry		1916-07-11
11788	Kane	Francis	F	Private	3rd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. A. 3.	1916-07-15
12321	Kirkham	William James	W J	Private	1st South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval X. O. 7.	1916-07-17
13419	Letchford	Charles Thomas Kenneth	C T K	Second Lieutenant	2nd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval VIII. F. 6.	1916-07-20
13692	Little	Walter Bruce	W B	Private	2nd South African Infantry	Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval III. B. 8.	1916-07-17

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