GHISSIGNIES BRITISH CEMETERY
Ghissignies
Nord
France
General Directions: Ghissignies is in the Department of the Nord, south-west of Le Quesnoy. The British Cemetery is on the north-west side of the road to Le Quesnoy, 100 metres away from the water tower on the D86.
Ghissignies village was taken by the 37th Division on the 24th October, 1918. Ghissignies Churchyard contained, near the North-West corner, the graves of two soldiers of the 37th Battalion Machine Gun Corps, who fell on the 4th November, 1918; but these graves were concentrated into the British Cemetery in 1928. In Ghissignies British Cemetery, Row A was made after the capture of the village and contains almost exclusively the graves of soldiers of the 37th Division; Row B was made, and one grave was added to Row A, by the concentration of graves after the Armistice.
All but three of the graves concentrated to Ghissignies British Cemetery came from the two following burial grounds: Locquignol Communal Cemetery Extension, in the middle of the Forest of Mormal, was made by a German medical unit and used by British units after the capture of the village on the 4th November, 1918. It contained the graves of 142 German soldiers, now reburied at Le Cateau; one soldier from the United Kingdom buried by the enemy; and 24 soldiers from the United Kingdom buried by their comrades. Louvignies British Cemetery was on the East side of the village of Le Quesnoy. It was made by the 13th Rifle Brigade in November, 1918, and it contained the graves of 22 soldiers of that battalion and four others from the United Kingdom. Twenty-three German graves, brought in by the French in 1920, have been removed to Le Cateau. There are two unidentified British soldiers buried in this cemetery.
Shot at Dawn: Private L. Harris, 10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment, executed 07/11/1918 for desertion, row B. 34.
Casualty Details: UK 120, Total Burials: 120
Burials by Regiment
| Rifle Brigade | 31 | Lincolnshire Regiment | 18 |
| Royal Fusiliers | 12 | King's Royal Rifle Corps. | 10 |
| Hertfordshire Regiment | 08 | Machine Gun Corps. (Inf) | 06 |
| East Yorkshire Regiment | 03 | West Yorkshire Regiment | 03 |
| Lancashire Fusiliers | 03 | Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders | 02 |
| Leicestershire Regiment | 02 | King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry | 02 |
| Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) | 02 | Essex Regiment | 02 |
| Royal Engineers | 02 | Royal Welsh Fusiliers | 02 |
| London Rifle Brigade | 01 | Durham Light Infantry | 01 |
| Welsh Regiment | 01 | Royal Air Force | 01 |
| Royal Army Service Corps | 01 | Wiltshire Regiment (Special Memorial only) | 01 |
| Devonshire Regiment | 01 | King's Liverpool Regiment | 01 |
| Duke of Wellington's Regiment | 01 | Royal Field Artillery | 01 |
| Unidentified | 02 |
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