Devonshire Cemetery

The cemetery grounds were assigned to the British Empire in perpetuity by the French state in recognition of the sacrifices made by the Allies in the defence of France during the First World War.

The cemetery was established on 4 July 1916, employing a section of the old front-line trench in Mansel Copse.

This ground had originally been held by troops of the 9th Devons before the attack towards the German positions in Mametz on 1 July.

After the war, the architect W. H. Cowlishaw was commissioned to submit a design for a permanent site.

Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson, MC, a war poet is buried here.