The Cross of Sacrifice at Devonshire Cemetery Mametz The Somme Picardy France (present in most CWGC military cemeteries)

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The Devonshire Cemetery is particularly poignant for several reasons. Captain Martin of the Devonshires had sombrely predicted prior to the big push of 1st July that the regiment would come under heavy machine gun fire from a position in Mametz. He was right, and only one from 151 of the Devonshire Regiment buried in the Cemetery did not die on July 1st 1916. Captain Martin was one of those that fell. A wooden sign was placed at the site by the survivors. It read "The Devonshires held this trench, the Devonshires hold it still".

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