The 8th and 9th Battalions of the Devonshire Regiments, which were part of the 7th Division, attacked on 1 July 1916 from a point on the south-west side of Albert-Maricourt road, due south of Mametz village, by a plantation called Mansel Copse. On 4 July they returned this location and established the Devonshire Cemetery, burying their dead in a section of their old front line trench. All but two of the burials belong to these battalions. Total burials 163.
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