Delville Wood is well preserved with the remains of trenches, a museum and monument to the 1st South African Brigade. After the relief of the South Africans the battle for the wood continued until the end of August, when the last German footholds were captured by the
43rd Brigade of the
14th (Light) Division on 27 August. A large German counter-attack on 31 August regained part of the north edge of the wood until British attacks from 4 to 8 September, which secured the wood until the battles of 1918.[2]
Orders of Battle
British and Dominion forces
Map of the Longueval and Delville Wood area (commune FR insee code 80378)
Order of battle for actions associated with the capture of Trônes Wood: 14–15 July 1916.
Memorial, South African Brigade Headquarters, Delville Wood.
Ewing, J. (2009) [1921]. The History of the Ninth (Scottish) Division 1914–1919 (Naval & Military Press ed.). London: John Murray.
ISBN978-1-84342-190-0.
Miles, W. (1992) [1938]. Military Operations in France and Belgium 1916: 2 July to the End of the Battles of the Somme. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. II (Imperial War Museum & Battery Press ed.). London: Macmillan.
ISBN978-0-89839-169-5.
Miles, W. (1994) [1938]. Military Operations, France and Belgium 1916: Maps and Appendices. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. II (Imperial War Museum & Battery Press ed.). London: Macmillan.
ISBN978-0-89839-207-4.
Moorhouse, B. (2003). Forged by Fire: The Battle Tactics and Soldiers of a World War One Battalion, The 7th Somerset Light Infantry (1st ed.). Staplehurst: Spellmount.
ISBN978-0-89839-207-4.
The Union of South Africa and the Great War 1914–1918: Official History (Imperial War Museum and Naval & Military Press ed.). Pretoria: Government Print and Stationery Office. 1924.
ISBN978-0-89839-207-4.
OCLC16795056.
Uys, I. (1991). Rollcall: The Delville Wood Story. Germiston: Uys Publishers.
ISBN978-0-9583173-1-3.
Uys, I. (December 1986).
"South Africans at Delville Wood". South African Military History Journal. 7 (2). South African Military History Society/Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging.
ISSN0026-4016. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
Delville Wood is well preserved with the remains of trenches, a museum and monument to the 1st South African Brigade. After the relief of the South Africans the battle for the wood continued until the end of August, when the last German footholds were captured by the
43rd Brigade of the
14th (Light) Division on 27 August. A large German counter-attack on 31 August regained part of the north edge of the wood until British attacks from 4 to 8 September, which secured the wood until the battles of 1918.[2]
Orders of Battle
British and Dominion forces
Map of the Longueval and Delville Wood area (commune FR insee code 80378)
Order of battle for actions associated with the capture of Trônes Wood: 14–15 July 1916.
Memorial, South African Brigade Headquarters, Delville Wood.
Ewing, J. (2009) [1921]. The History of the Ninth (Scottish) Division 1914–1919 (Naval & Military Press ed.). London: John Murray.
ISBN978-1-84342-190-0.
Miles, W. (1992) [1938]. Military Operations in France and Belgium 1916: 2 July to the End of the Battles of the Somme. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. II (Imperial War Museum & Battery Press ed.). London: Macmillan.
ISBN978-0-89839-169-5.
Miles, W. (1994) [1938]. Military Operations, France and Belgium 1916: Maps and Appendices. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. II (Imperial War Museum & Battery Press ed.). London: Macmillan.
ISBN978-0-89839-207-4.
Moorhouse, B. (2003). Forged by Fire: The Battle Tactics and Soldiers of a World War One Battalion, The 7th Somerset Light Infantry (1st ed.). Staplehurst: Spellmount.
ISBN978-0-89839-207-4.
The Union of South Africa and the Great War 1914–1918: Official History (Imperial War Museum and Naval & Military Press ed.). Pretoria: Government Print and Stationery Office. 1924.
ISBN978-0-89839-207-4.
OCLC16795056.
Uys, I. (1991). Rollcall: The Delville Wood Story. Germiston: Uys Publishers.
ISBN978-0-9583173-1-3.
Uys, I. (December 1986).
"South Africans at Delville Wood". South African Military History Journal. 7 (2). South African Military History Society/Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging.
ISSN0026-4016. Retrieved 5 August 2013.