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linked words below. |Notes||This photograph of the edge of
Mametz Wood gives some idea of the density of the timber and
undergrowth through which the 38th (Welsh) Division would have
had to attack.| Graves, on the 14th July 1916, with the RWF 2nd
Battalion, went into reserve north of Mametz Wood. Meanwhile,
The battalion was detailed to go into Mametz Wood and 'bury
friends'. These were the dead of the 38th (Welsh) Division in
whose ranks had been many volunteers from North Wales who fell
with the Royal Welch Fusilier battalions (including the 14th
battalion who had taken over from Sassoon’s battalion in Bottom
Wood just over a week previously), in their attack on Mametz
Wood on 10th-12th July. As the nights were cold, Graves
collected greatcoats for his men from dead Germans. The sight of
one corpse inspired his poem, A Dead Boche. |Item Date||10th
July 2008| |Creation place||Mametz Wood, Somme (Google Maps)|
|Item medium||Digital image| |Reposito