This is a nice find from the battlefield a pair of British mark 5 barbed wire cutters which are in relic condition they are rusty but solid and have rusted solid and do not move. The wire cutters have been very well cleaned and are perfect for display or any collection which has been in a private collection originally recovered in 2012 from an old German trench line on a field in the village Longueval on the edge of Delville Wood the July - September 1916 battlefield on the Somme. and comes with 2x A5 laminated information cards.
The Battle of Delville Wood (15 July – 3 September 1916) was a series of engagements in the 1916 Battle of the Somme between the armies of the German Empire and the British Empire. Delville Wood (Bois d'Elville), was a thick tangle of trees, chiefly beech and hornbeam (the wood has been replanted with oak and birch by the South African government), with dense hazel thickets, intersected by grassy rides, to the east of Longueval. As part of a general offensive starting on 14 July, which became known as the Battle of Bazentin Ridge (14–17 July), General Douglas Haig Commander of the British expeditionary force intended to capture the German second position between Delville Wood and Bazentin le Petit.
This is a nice find from the battlefield a pair of British mark 5 barbed wire cutters which are in relic condition they are rusty but solid and have rusted solid and do not move. The wire cutters have been very well cleaned and are perfect for display or any collection which has been in a private collection originally recovered in 2012 from an old German trench line on a field in the village Longueval on the edge of Delville Wood the July - September 1916 battlefield on the Somme. and comes with 2x A5 laminated information cards.
The Battle of Delville Wood (15 July – 3 September 1916) was a series of engagements in the 1916 Battle of the Somme between the armies of the German Empire and the British Empire. Delville Wood (Bois d'Elville), was a thick tangle of trees, chiefly beech and hornbeam (the wood has been replanted with oak and birch by the South African government), with dense hazel thickets, intersected by grassy rides, to the east of Longueval. As part of a general offensive starting on 14 July, which became known as the Battle of Bazentin Ridge (14–17 July), General Douglas Haig Commander of the British expeditionary force intended to capture the German second position between Delville Wood and Bazentin le Petit.
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