page_title: Mametz Wood Memorial
section_title: The memorial
hierarchical_section_title: Mametz Wood Memorial / The memorial
caption_attribution_description: English: A composite image derived from three photos, taken from the ridge behind the memorial looking across the valley to the wood
context_page_description: The Mametz Wood Memorial commemorates an engagement of the 38th Division of the British Army during the First Battle of the Somme in France in 1916.
context_section_description: The memorial, erected in 1987 by Welsh sculptor David Petersen, is a Welsh red dragon on top of a three-metre stone plinth, facing the wood and tearing at barbed wire. It was commissioned by the South Wales Branch of the Western Front Association following a public funding-raising appeal.
  The memorial is located near the site of the engagement in northern France. It can be reached from the village of Mametz on the D64 road.
  On 12 July 2013, the Welsh Government announced that it was helping to fund refurbishment of the memorial in time for the 100th anniversary of the Battle in 2016.
caption: Mametz Wood and memorial. The memorial assembly blurred due to copyright restrictions
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