The Hell that was Delville Wood - an Epic Story, by Pte G A Lawson | 15-18 July 1916 | Episode 135
Published on 15 July 1916
To the South Africans Delville Wood stands in the same relation as a national memorial to their mightiest efforts as Vimy Ridge to the Canadians or Villers Bretonneux to the Australians.
The following most moving chapter by a South African private gives a clear idea of the tremendous demands that were made on the Brigade during the Battle of the Somme in Delville Wood.
Private Lawson, of the 3rd South African Infantry, was a veteran of the Boer War and so was his pal, Private Breytenbach, though at that time they fought on opposite sides.