Contents

Preface

Maps

Introduction

1.The birth of the South African brigade

2.Bernafay and Trônes woods

3.Longueval

4.Delville Wood

5.Life in the trenches

6.The Butte de Warlencourt

7.The Battle of Arras

8.The final push

Appendices:

IHeavy artillery

IISouth African Signal Company (Royal Engineers)

IIISouth African Medical Corps

IVRailways and miscellaneous trades companies

VVictoria Crosses won by South Africans during the Great War

VIRoll of Honour of the South African Infantry Brigade: Operations on the Somme, July 1916

VIIA note on the role of black South Africans

Notes

Bibliography

Index