Battle of Delville Wood starts
… South Africa entered WWI on 8 September 1914, on the side of the Allied Forces. On 15 July 1916, the S.A. Infantry … was ordered to clear the wood at d'Elville, north-east of the village of Longueal, France, of enemy soldiers, thereby covering the … p. 115.| Potgieter, D.J. (ed)(1971) Standard Encyclopedia of Southern Africa Vol. 3, Cape Town: Nasou, p. 638.| …