the South African National War Memorial and Museum in Delville Wood was erected and inaugurated in 1926. In 1952, an altar stone was added to commemorate South African soldiers, who died during ...

Honoured guests, The Delville Wood Memorial was inaugurated in 1926 ... Wood laid the foundation upon which the integrated South African National Defence Force (SANDF), as an instrument for ...

10) The South African memorial at Delville Wood had no names inscribed on it ... while others died of the Spanish Flu after the war. 12) The National Museum of Military History in Saxonwold ...

saying the memorial is hosted annually by the South African Legion with support from the SA National Defence Force and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. “The Battle of Delville Wood ...

The Battle of the Somme commenced on 1 July 1916. At Delville Wood the 1st South African Infantry Brigade was to show what that meant. Their feat can never be surpassed. Shortly after midnight on ...

South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday inaugurated a new memorial wall at the site of the Battle of Delville Wood where some 3,000 citizens fell in July 1916. "We are here to honour in ...

The proceedings of the Delville Wood Memorial Parade held in the Kaapsehoop ... More than 3 000 South African soldiers were deployed, of which only 750 survived. ALSO READ: NG Moedergemeente ...

Mamoepa said Beleza's remains would be exhumed from the civilian cemetery of Seine-Maritime near Le Havre and reburied at Delville Wood Memorial as part of honouring all South Africans who were ...

South African soldiers who lost their ... Recently-formed Hampshire group the Friends of Delville Wood held a service at the Hollybrook Memorial at the Hollybrook Cemetery, in Southampton, on ...