Vryheid Moths remember Delville Wood
IT IS 99 years ago this week, from July 15-20, 1916, that South African troops fought the Battle of Delville Wood in France. In this mind-blowingly brutal World War I engagement the South African Brigade was relieved after six days and five nights of ferocious fighting. Only 750 soldiers remained of the Brigade’s 3,433 soldiers, …
IT IS 99 years ago this week, from July 15-20, 1916, that South African troops fought the Battle of Delville Wood in France. In this mind-blowingly brutal World War I
engagement the South African Brigade was relieved after six days and five nights of ferocious fighting. Only 750 soldiers remained of the Brigade’s 3,433 soldiers, the rest had either been killed or wounded.
Vryheid Moths remembered them at a parade at the Cenotaph on Thursday evening. The Cenotaph stands in the grounds of St Peter’s Anglican Church, on the corner of High and Hlobane streets. Coincidentally, the Delville Wood Memorial in France was designed by Sir Herbert Baker who also designed this church in Vryheid.
At the going down of the sun, the Moths of Freedom Shellhole remembered them.
