BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY
Ficheux
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Bucquoy Road Cemetery is situated on the D919 heading south from Arras to Ayette. The Cemetery is on the right hand side of the road, 9 kilometres from Arras, just before a crossroads with the D36 between Ficheux and Boisleux-au-Mont.
In November 1916, the village of Ficheux was behind the German front line, but by April 1917, the German withdrawal had taken the line considerably east of the village and in April and May, the VII Corps Main Dressing Station was posted near for the Battles of Arras. It was followed by the 20th and 43rd Casualty Clearing Stations, which remained at Boisleux-au-Mont until March 1918, and continued to use the Bucquoy Road Cemetery begun by the field ambulances. From early April to early August 1918 the cemetery was not used but in September and October, the 22nd, 30th and 33rd Casualty Clearing Stations came to Boisleux-au-Mont and extended it. By the date of the Armistice, it contained 1,166 burials but was greatly increased when graves were brought in from the surrounding battlefields and from small cemeteries in the neighbourhood.
Shot at Dawn: Private J. B. Milburn, 24/27th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers, executed for desertion 08/11/1917, plot 2. C. 8. Private E. Horler, 12th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment, executed for desertion 17/02/1918, plot 2. L. 14.
Casualty Details: UK 1453, Canada 447, India 1, Total Burials: 1901
28945 Private
John Darley Denton
1st Bn. Grenadier Guards
27/03/1918.
Husband of
Ethel Foyson Denton.
Son of John Darley and A Denton of 173 Dean Road, Scarborough
Plot VI. F. 13.
Image courtesy of granddaughter Mrs M. Julie Taylor
Second Lieutenant
Harry Mitchell
7th Bn. Manchester Regiment
28/09/1918.
Plot II. H. 21.
He was married to Ethel Mitchell (nee Slater) and lived in Oldham. They had two sons Harry Ensor, and my father George Kenneth. George was born 3 months after the death of his father.
Harry wrote some beautiful love letters to my Grandmother, the most poignant being the final letter saying what was planned and that he was confident that all would be well.
I have the telegram that my Grandmother received and the final cheque that she received from my grandfather, which arrived after his death but which she felt she could not cash in.
Picture courtesy of Cassandra Gouriet, Lt. Mitchell's granddaughter
I welcome any relatives who read about this to contact me.
325363 Private
Joseph Wilkinson Tunstall
9th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
06/09/1917, aged 32.
Son of William and Alice Tunstall; husband of Elizabeth McNaughton (formerly Tunstall), of High Spen, Rowlands Hill, Co. Durham. Native of Greenside, Ryton.
Plot I. L. 2.
Picture courtesy of Alan Tunstall
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