Detail View: SHIMMER: Memorial to the 38th (Welsh) Division
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Title:
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Memorial to the 38th (Welsh) Division
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Creation Date:
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1987
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Image Date:
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2007
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Period:
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21st century
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Location:
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Mametz Wood, Picardy
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Country:
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FRANCE
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Display Creator:
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PETERSON, David
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Image ID:
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07-2373
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Description:
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View from the memorial with the ridge over which the attack was made. The plinth has carved badges of the 38th Division and the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. When the photograph was taken two coachloads of tourists were visiting the site - accessed over tracks across farmland. This memorial was made from Welsh steel, in a furnace fired by South Wales coal, mounted on a Forest of Dean sandstone plinth. The dragon taken from the badge of the 38th Division. The Attack on Mametz Wood, July 7-14, 1916 took place at the beginning of the Battle of the Somme. It is sited in the middle of farmland below the crest of ridge looking over a shallow valley to the edge of the Mametz Wood.
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Rights:
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© Sheffield Hallam University
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Permissions:
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For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
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Photographed by:
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Dave Ball
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Creator:
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PETERSON, David
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Creator Role:
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Sculptor.
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Culture Gender:
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Male.
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Nationality:
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British - Welsh.
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Subject Heading:
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War memorials -- France
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Subject Heading:
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Sculpture, British -- 1900-2000
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Subject Heading:
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Monuments -- France
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Subject Heading:
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Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916
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Subject Heading:
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Badges
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Subject Heading:
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World War, 1914-1918
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Subject Heading:
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Dark tourism
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