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.
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. The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.*
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Driver F.Lambert
Serjeant R.Kitch
L/Cpl R.H.Hill
Private C.J.Elston
Private A.Carpenter
Private A.H. Grant
Private W.Browning
Private J.H.Trewern
L/Cpl C.H.Viney
Private S.H.Fedrick
Private T.Collings
Private A.W.Grimmett
Capt.G.P.Tregelles
Private F.Batten
Private E.Bolton
2nd.Lt. C.H.Shepard
Private W.P.Crewe
Private A.J.Reed
Private W.Bussell
Private W.H.Davey
Private R.P.Willing
Private H.Rushworth
Private R.Orsman
Private G.Connett
Lance Serjeant
H.Butland
Lance Corporal
H.E.Davies
Private
F.G.Griffiths
Private
A.Rose
Private
J.Haigh
Private
W.Green
Private
W.G.Lee
Corporal
W.J.Salway
Private J.Partridge
Private
J.Denner
Lance Corporal
B.Court
Private
G.Balch
Private
F.C.Taylor
Private
J.W.Prior
Private
S.Rogers
2nd Lieutenant
P.F.Gethin
Private
A.F.Weston
Private
J.Bennett
Private
P.D.Murley
Private
A.Roach
2nd Lieutenant
J.F.G.Rew
Private
F.J.Matthews
Private
F.R.Abbott
Private
J.T.Jones
Private
F.H.Bowden
Private
B.W.Sillince
Private
A.Hitchcock
Private
W.A.Gibson
Private
R.Clayton
Private
B.J.W.Gilbury
Private
S.Boundy
Private
R.H.Dark
Private
R.V.Connett
Private
S.Norton
Private
G.Bewhay
Private
W.C.Calverley
Private
R.Condick
Private
H.H.Thomas
Private
W.J.Dunn
Private
A.E.J.Harwood
Private
H.Rowland
Private
W.H.Gough
Lance Corporal
J.W.Coshell
Private
J.T.Down
Private
G.W.Gristey
Private
H.Brown
Private
S.G.Morrish
Serjeant
D.Wright
