Mametz is a former commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune ...

The Mametz Wood Memorial commemorates an engagement of the 38th (Welsh) Division of the British Army during the First Battle of the Somme in France in 1916.

Mametz Wood is just one conflict which took place over a five-day period in July 1916, within the wider battle of the Somme.

"Mametz Wood" was written in 2005 by British poet Owen Sheers. Mametz is a village in Northern France; the woodland nearby was the site of an especially ...

Llewelyn Wyn Griffith's Up to Mametz, published in 1931, is now firmly established as one of the finest accounts of soldiering on the Western Front.

An account of the fighting in Mametz Wood by an officer of the Welsh Regiment. Hand-‐to-‐hand fighting and bombing took place throughout the wood. The wood was.

This article is about the attack and capture of Mametz on 1 July 1916 and the fight for the next ground up toward Mametz Wood that followed over the next ...

Inspired by Owen's poem Mametz Wood, it will draw on written material by the poets who fought in or witnessed one of the war's bloodiest conflicts – the Battle ...

Jul 7, 2016 · Mametz Wood was the objective of the 38th (Welsh) Division during the First Battle of the Somme. Attacking on the 7th July 1916 they were ...

The poem describes how farmers ploughing today regularly find the remains of those gunned-down soldiers. There is an extended metaphor of the land being injured ...