Devonshire Cemetery

En route to the Lachnagar crater, we paused at the Devonshire Cemetery. A small, somewhat out of the way cemetery, it is a lasting symbol of the bond found between soldiers. Advancing out of their trenches, soldiers of the Devonshire Regiment were cut down by German machine gun fire from across the valley. Their surviving comrades buried them back in the trench from which they left such a short time before.

'The Devonshires held this trench. They still hold it today.'

DGW
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