EPISODE · Nov 4, 2020 · 31 MIN
Delville Wood - the slaughter of the Springboks
from Footsteps of the fallen · host Matt Dixon
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, we walk the battlefield of Delville Wood, the scene of the first engagement of the South African Infantry on the Western Front. In a period of six days, they suffered almost 100% casualties and were subjected to German artillery bombardments of a ferocity unprecedented even by Great War standards. We hear of the heroic struggle to hold the wood and the story of how a bag of 400-year-old Huguenot acorns was used to replant the wood in the aftermath of the War.
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we walk the battlefield of Delville Wood, the scene of the first engagement of the South African Infantry on the Western Front. In a period of six days, they suffered almost 100% casualties and were subjected to German artillery bombardments of a ferocity unprecedented even by Great War standards. We hear of the heroic struggle to hold the wood and the story of how a bag of 400-year-old Huguenot acorns was used to replant the wood in the aftermath...
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