Devonshire Regiment - Victoria Crosses

Victoria Crosses

The following members of the Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross:

  • Lieutenant (later Major) James Edward Ignatius Masterson, Second Boer War
  • Private (later Corporal) Theodore Veale, Great War
  • Lance-Corporal (later Captain) George Onions, Great War
  • Soldier of the 11th Foot in 1742. The red coat displays the regiment's green facings.

  • Soldiers of the Devonshire Regiment at the Relief of Ladysmith, 1900. They are facing Pepworth Hill, firing from behind boulders which provided for an effective cover.

  • The Devonshire cemetery at Mansell Copse, Mametz, Northern France, location of the famous sign left after the battle: 'The Devonshires held this trench; the Devonshires hold it still'

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