Dartmoor Cemetery contains 768 burials from the First World War. It was begun in 1915 and called Becordel-Becourt Military Cemetery but its name changed in May 1916 at the request of the Devonshire Regiment. In September 1916, the XV Corps Main Dressing Station was established in the neighbourhood, but throughout 1917 the cemetery was scarcely used. It passed into German hands on 26 March 1918 but was retaken on 24 August by the 12th Division. In adjoining graves in Plot 1, Row A, are buried a father and son who served in the same artillery battery and were killed in action on the same day. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.