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Mametz

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Mametz

French village and wood occupying a commanding position in the département of the Somme, 8 km/5 mi from Albert.

In World War I, the village was captured by the British on 1 July 1916, followed by the wood 10–12 July. Both were lost to the German Spring Offensive in March 1918 and recovered in the Allied offensive in the autumn.
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Billy, whose Land Fit for Heroes turned out to be a bedsit in Cardiff in old age, often spoke of Mametz Wood where 600 Welsh soldiers died, as many missing, 3,000 wounded in July 1916.
'War to End All Wars' was just the start of many more by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Cymerwch y dyfyniad hwn o lythyr gan W O Hughes, Deiniolen, cyn brwydr Coed Mametz ar y Somme: "Codais fy mhen i gael un olwg ar y bechgyn glew oedd oddi tanom ac yn wir fe erys yr olygfa ar fy nghof ddyddiau fy oes - pob un 'with fixed bayonet and in extended order' ac un glin ar lawr.
Lleisiau hen filwyr yn atsain... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Jones fought on the Western Front and was wounded at Mametz Wood, experiences he called "a parenthesis" between his early training and later career.
David Jones & the sacrament of art by Russello, Gerald J. / New Criterion
 
 
 
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