The Western Front Today - Delville Wood Cemetery
Updated - Sunday, 8 September, 2002

Sited opposite the Delville Wood South African Memorial, Delville Wood cemetery in Longueval contains 5,493 burials of which some two-thirds are unknown.  151 burials are of South African troops.

The cemetery comprises burials concentrated from ten (possibly more) Somme battlefield cemeteries following the war.

References:
Before Endeavours Fade, Rose E.B. Coombs, After the Battle 1994
Major & Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide - Somme, Leo Cooper 2000

"Coffin Nails" was a term used by British soldiers to describe cigarettes.

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