WW 1 Battlefield Tour th June 2016 12

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We Remembered: 18 Servicemen and the Devonshire Regiment • 1. Pte FW Frise Devonshire Regt - 19 Dostabrook Cottages Horrabridge - St Avold Military Cemetery.

We Remembered: 18 Servicemen and the Devonshire Regiment • 2. Capt RA Jones – Royal Field Artillery – 32 - Eggworthy Horrabridge - La Ferte. Sous-Jourre Memorial.

We Remembered: 18 Servicemen and the Devonshire Regiment • 3. Pte RJ Woodrow - Devonshire Regt 24 - Marfaux British Cemetery. • 4. LCpl WG Woodrow - Devonshire Regt 25 - Soissons Memorial • Both of Furze Cottage, Moortown

We Remembered: 18 Servicemen and the Devonshire Regiment • 5. Pte LS George – Queens Own - 18 – Ribemont Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme • 6. Capt JO Muntz – Devonshire Regt – 42 – Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt. L’Abbe • 7. Pte G Soper - Devonshire Regt – 30 – Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension

We Remembered: 18 Servicemen and the Devonshire Regiment • 8. Capt BE Gill – Yorkshire Regt – 23 – Ward House, Walkhampton • 9. Spr PJ Brimblecombe – Royal Engineers Thiepval Memorial

We Remembered: 18 Servicemen and the Devonshire Regiment • 10. Sgt N Giles – Duke of Cornwall LI – 27 – Southside, Walkampton – Pozieres Memorial. • 11. Pte E Davey – Somerset LI – Gommecourt British Cemetery No 2, Hebuterne • 12. Capt DH Bellamy – Devonshire Regt – 22 – Leigh Holt, Crapstone - HAC Cemetery Ecoust St Mein

We Remembered: 18 Servicemen and the Devonshire Regiment • 13. Rifleman RE Pengelly – The Rifle Bde – 42 – Walkhampton – Douchy Les Ayette British Cemetery 14. Pte EW Trembath – Canadian Infantry – 25 – emigrated from Horrabridge – Barlin Communal Military Cemetery • 15. LCpl CA Cave – Gloucester Regt – 32 – Bibiani, Horrabridge Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery

We Remembered: 18 Servicemen and the Devonshire Regiment • 16. Pte FJ Jolley – Devonshire Regt – 27 – Springfield, Horrabridge – Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension • 17. Pte RSJ Bird – Wiltshire Regt – Tyne Cott Cemetery • 18. Pte A Parnell – Devonshire Regt – 19 – Brook Cottage, Sampford Spiney – Arras Memorial

We Remembered: 18 Servicemen and the Devonshire Regiment • Devonshire Regiment Memorial The Devonshires held this trench. The Devonshires hold it still

Also visited • German Cemetery at Fricourt were the ‘Red Baron’ Manfred Von Richthofen was initially buried. • Dartmoor Cemetery – Becourt-Becourdel • Father & Son are buried side by side • Pte James Miller VC, citation reads: ‘Private Miller was ordered to take an important message under heavy shell and rifle fire and to bring back a reply at all costs. He was compelled to cross the open, and on leaving the trench was shot almost immediately in the back, the bullet coming out through his abdomen. In spite of this, with heroic courage and self-sacrifice, he compressed with his hand the gaping wound in his abdomen, delivered his message, staggered back with the answer and fell at the feet of the officer to whom he delivered it. He gave his life with a supreme devotion to duty. "

We must thank • Horrabridge Parish Council for their support in this battlefield tour by way of purchasing the crosses and wreath. • We placed a crossed at all 18 war graves of our local servicemen who paid the ultimate price for us. • We also placed a wreath at the Devonshire Memorial in support of the villages local Regiment

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

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