Wales Online described the name Mametz Wood "perhaps like that of Aberfan or Senghenydd, is embedded deep in the Welsh psyche, immediately conjuring up images of needless loss of life, bravery, chaos and self-sacrifice".

Some battlefield locations have become synonymous with the service of certain regiments or that of sacrifice from a particular region or country.

At the Mametz Wood on the Somme, the striking Red Dragon tells us immediately that the 38th (Welsh) Division were thrust into action here.

On the 7th July the Welshmen went into attack, their mission to capture the wood and secure the opportunity to get to the open ground beyond. They went in at 08:30 down an exposed slope into heavy machine gun fire and artillery. A second attack reinforced by the 10th South Wales Borderers also failed and a planned third attempt was called off as it was decided it would be futile to continue.

Standing by the Dragon allows you to visualise this action unfolding.

Sophie says "Mametz Wood is one place I find very difficult to enter. It holds the darkness and the trauma of what went on there in 1916".