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DEVONSHIRE CEMETERY

​Mametz 
​​​
Somme

​France


GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 49.9883, Longitude: 2.73597

Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Image above © Carl Liversage  @carl_liversage
Location Information

Mametz is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6.5 kilometres east of Albert.  

Devonshire Cemetery is 800 metres south of Mametz and is situated on high ground some 450 metres west of the road (D938) from Albert to Peronne, 6.5 kilometres from Albert.


Visiting Information

​The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.


Historical Information

Mametz was within the German lines until 1 July 1916 when it was captured by the 7th Division, and Mametz Wood, north-east of the village, was cleared on the days following 7 July. 

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 a cemetery, burying their dead in a section of their old front line trench. All but two of the burials belong to these battalions.

Devonshire Cemetery contains 163 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, ten of which are unidentified.

Total Burials: 163.

Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 153.

Unidentified Casualties: 10.

The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw and Sir Edwin Lutyens
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
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Devonshire Cemetery - early 1920's. Centre left of the cemetery is the Albert-Bapaume road with Gordon Cemetery behind. The light railway that ran along the road is still in situ. ©CWGC
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16683 Private
George Balch
9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916
Row B. 4.

Brother of Mr. J. Balch, of Merton, Dolton, Devon.


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15522 Private
​Walter Calverley
8th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916, aged 21.
Row B. 2.

Son of Robert and Mary Calverley, of 2, Oak Terrace, Summit, Littleborough, Lancs.


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13370 Private
Frederick Edward Cartwright
​9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916.
Row A. 7.

Husband of G. Cartwright, of 6, Centre Vale, Gale Rd., Littleborough, Lancs.


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Second Lieutenant
Robert Henry Walter Davidson
1st July 1916, aged 31.
8th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
Row A. 2.

Son of F. G. and Mary Davidson.

​His headstone bears the inscription; 
"Late Of The Malay States Elder Son Of Gerald Davidson Suez, Egypt."

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14306 Private
Sydney James Dyer
9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916, aged 21.
Row A. 8.

Son of James and Bessie Dyer, of East Cotts, Trusham, Chudleigh, Devon.

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His headstone bears the inscription; "Thine For Ever."

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14323 Private
John Haigh
9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916, aged 22.
Row B. 5.

Son of James and Priscilla Haigh, of Royton, Oldham.


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Lieutenant
William Noel Hodgson, M. C.
9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916, aged 23.
Row A. 3.


Son of the Rt. Rev. Henry Bernard Hodgson, D.D., 1st Bishop of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, and Penelope Hodgson (nee Warren), of Churcher's College, Petersfield, Hants. One of the war poets. Author of "Verse and Prose in Peace and War".

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16158 Lance Corporal
Albert Kershaw
​9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916, aged 27.
Row A. 8.

Son of Ellen Kershaw.


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11129 Private
Edgar King
9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916.
Row A. 4.

Son of Mrs. M. J. Winsborough, of 17, Summerland Avenue, Minehead, Somerset.

Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
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12086 Lance Corporal
Harold Levy
9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916.
Row B. 1.


Son of Mrs. E. Levy, of 1, Gwycliffe Cottages, Oakleigh Rd., Whetstone, London.

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Second Lieutenant
Harold Leslie Rayner
9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916
Row A. 5.
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Son of Mrs. L. Rayner, of The Haven, Blatchington Rd., Tunbridge Wells.


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17929 Private
Herbert Rushworth
9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916, aged 23.
Row B. 6.


Nephew of Mrs. S. Whittam, of 42, St. Cuthbert's St., Burnley, Lancs.


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Captain
Geoffrey Philip Tregelles, Mentioned in Despatches
"A" Coy. 8th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916, aged 23.
Row B. 6.


Son of Mr. George F. and Mrs. M. S. Tregelles, of 5, Clarence Place, Barnstaple. Born at Penzance. Undergraduate of Caius College, Cambridge.

​The inscription on his headstone reads: "Blessed are the pure in heart."

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12540 Private
Alfred Frederick Weston
9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment
1st July 1916.
Row B. 4.

Son of Mrs. C. S. Weston, of 85, Millins Rd., Leytonstone, London.

​​​​​Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem

Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
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Image above © Carl Liversage  @carl_liversage
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Wounded British soldiers at Mametz, July 1916. © IWM (Q 815)
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Lewis gun section of the 8th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment resting after an attack near Fricourt, August 1916. © IWM (Q 1395)
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz
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View of the battlefield at Mametz, September 1916. © IWM (Q 1125)
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Image above © Carl Liversage  @carl_liversage

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