Hell has a name. It’s called Devil’s wood. This last tree is the only living witness of the massacre of 14-20 July 1916. The South Africans were told to to take the wood at all costs, but were trapped in the wood for 5 days and 4 nights, under constant shelling (up to 400 per minute) and machine gun fire, deprived of food and water.
A German officer wrote: “... Delville Wood had disintegrated into a shattered wasteland of shattered trees, charred and burning stumps, craters thick with mud and blood, and corpses, corpses everywhere. In places they were piled four deep. Worst of all was the lowing of the wounded. It sounded like a cattle ring at the spring fair…”
From 1 to 20 July, the 9th Scottish Division suffered 7,517 casualties, of which the 1st South Africans Infantry Brigade lost 2,536 men. Details of the German losses are incomplete.
Een warme mens en een groot artiest neemt afscheid van het podium. Willem, we blijven je liedjes en je teksten in ons hart dragen. Merci voor alles!
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Ever seen such a beautiful graveyard? A former medical post, at a stone’s throw of the battlefield…
“Trench Warfare” from a Portuguese perspective… a somewhat different approach than in Flanders or France. This "3D experience” can certainly be called unique. @MuseoDoCombatente, next to the Torre de Belem in Lisboa.
Lining up the Sportsters @ Tyne Cot Cemetery #sportstersicknessuk #hd #cruisingalongthefrontline #wewillrememberthem