The Devonshire's Memorial, Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France.
"The Devonshires held this trench, The Devonshires hold it still".
This cemetery was built along the line of the trench that the Devonshires attacked from on 1st July 1916. The dead from that attack were laid to rest in the remains of the trench.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 6,866 recorded WW1 deaths for the Devonshire Regiment.
RADCLIFFE, (DSO.MiDx2). Jasper Fitzgerald. Lieutenant Colonel. Devonshire Regiment, Attached To :- 10th Battalion, Essex Regiment.. Becourt Military Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt, Somme, France. 31-01-1916. Age 48. Son of the late Walter Copleston Radcliffe & Charlotte Hannah (nee Ellicombe) his wife of Warleigh, Devon, UK. Husband of Emily Maud Radcliffe (nee Orpen) of Park Mansions, Knightsbridge, London, UK Served in South African Campaign. (MiDx2). Born 18-07-1867 at Tamerton Foliott, Devon. Educated at Pencarwick School & Cheltenham. His son, Lieutenant Dering John Radcliffe of the Grenadier Guards was killed 13 October 1917 aged 22. Stone Inscription :- The Lord Watch Between You And Me Whilst We Are Seperated From Each Other".
Distinguished Service Order.
Mentioned in Dspatches, x 2.
A Soldier of the Great War. Unknown Major.
Devonshire Regiment.
'Knwn Unto God'.
Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, Pas-de-Calais, France.
FORD, E.H. Private, 56093. Devonshire Regiment, Transferred to :- Private, 103375, 173rd Company, Labour Corps. Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt, Somme, France. 08-08-1917. Age 41. Son of Henry & Sarah Elizabeth Ford of Perry Hill Lane, Sambourne, Astwood Bank, Redditch, x Worcestershire, UK.