DELVILLE WOOD

LONGUEVAL - SOMME - FRANCE

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Marrieres Wood.

Stand at all costs.

On the 21st March 1918, the Germans launched an offensive with the aim to definitively win the War. After a terrible shelling, units of the South African Infantry Brigade sustained the first clash at Gauche Wood (between Péronne and Cambrai) and, outnumbered, collapsed after a heroic resistance. After three days of fights and withdrawals, the remains of the Brigade entrenched in Marrières Wood (between Péronne and Bapaume) with orders to stand at all cost. They were practically anihilated.