DELVILLE WOOD
SOUTH AFRICAN MEMORIAL (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian A, N.Z Cable Association.) PARTS, 10th Oct. The Delville memorial is the most imposing war monument yet erected on l!riliso battlefields in France. The spacious rectangular grass plot which was the scene of the hardest lighting is .surrounded on all sides by ravaged' ground showing broken Irenchcs anil trees hewndown by Herman gunfire. The memorial i s in the centre of Hie plot, and is most original. Il consists of a semicircular wall lla.ikcd by a classical building. In I he middle is a bronze horse with a. nude youth on each siTTe, representing the two while, races to whom the. destiny of South Africa has been given. Beyond is a remelciy, and several monuments to British brigade.? and divisions who fought on the Somme are close at hand.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 October 1926, Page 5
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