BUZANCY MILITARY CEMETERY
Aisne
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.31447, Longitude: 3.34185
Picture © Johan Pauwels
Location Information
Buzancy is a village in the Department of the Aisne, 7 kilometres south of Soissons and 50 kilometres west of Reims, Northern France.
From Soissons, turn left off the N2 ring road (going south) onto the D1 road towards Chateau-Thierry, passing the villages of Courmelles and Berzy-le Sec. After about 6 kilometres, turn left onto the D1240 (at the first CWGC road sign) next to the American First Division Memorial, and then turn left up the Rue de la Montagne (second CWGC road sign). The Cemetery is situated at the end of this narrow road approximately 300 metres on the right hand side.
Historical Information
Buzancy was reached (though not held) by the 1st American Division on the 21st July, 1918, after an advance begun on the 18th. It was attacked by the 15th (Scottish) and 34th Divisions on the 23rd July, and taken on the 28th.
On the main Soissons-Chateau Thierry road, South-West of the village, is the American Memorial; and within the cemetery is the 15th Division Memorial, put up by the Engineers of the French 17th Division in August, 1918.
The Military Cemetery was made by the 15th Division, beside a French Military Cemetery from which the graves have been removed to Ambleny; and the original graves (in Plot I, Rows A-C) contain 96 burials. After the Armistice, graves were brought in from the surrounding battlefields.
There are now 335, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 71 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to nine soldiers believed to be buried among them.
The cemetery covers an area of 2,088 square metres and is enclosed on three sides by a low rubble wall.
Total Burials: 335.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 264.
Unidentified Casualties: 71.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens & John Reginald Truelove
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
Images in this gallery © Geerhard Joos
44130 Lance Corporal
John Andrew
7th/8th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
23rd July 1918, aged 28.
Plot I. C. 37.
Son of Henry Andrew, of Claremont Place, Bridge-of-Weir, Renfrewshire.
John Andrew
7th/8th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
23rd July 1918, aged 28.
Plot I. C. 37.
Son of Henry Andrew, of Claremont Place, Bridge-of-Weir, Renfrewshire.
220340 Private
Ernest Eusden
6th Bn. Cameron Highlanders
25th July 1918, aged 19.
Plot III. B. 7.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Eusden, of 92, Union Lane, Old Chesterton, Cambridge.
Ernest Eusden
6th Bn. Cameron Highlanders
25th July 1918, aged 19.
Plot III. B. 7.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Eusden, of 92, Union Lane, Old Chesterton, Cambridge.
38833 Private
Andrew Brown Geddes
10th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
23rd July 1917, aged 19.
Plot I. A. 14.
Son of John and Agnes Geddes of Barns Manor, Peebles.
Andrew Brown Geddes
10th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
23rd July 1917, aged 19.
Plot I. A. 14.
Son of John and Agnes Geddes of Barns Manor, Peebles.
23678 Private
Edward Gordon
7th/8th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
23rd July 1917
Plot I. E. 5.
Edward Gordon
7th/8th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
23rd July 1917
Plot I. E. 5.
263133 Private
Norman Keen
1st/5th Bn. Gordon Highlanders
28th July 1918, aged 18.
Plot I. A. 17.
Son of William and Annie Keen, of 40, Grant Rd., Addiscombe, Croydon.
A chorister at Addiscombe Parish Church.
Norman Keen
1st/5th Bn. Gordon Highlanders
28th July 1918, aged 18.
Plot I. A. 17.
Son of William and Annie Keen, of 40, Grant Rd., Addiscombe, Croydon.
A chorister at Addiscombe Parish Church.
1070 Serjeant
John Donald Macrae
8th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
28th July 1918, aged 20.
Plot I. D. 3.
Son of Major J. N. Macrae, D.S.O. (Seaforth Highlanders), of Queen Victoria School, Dunblane, Perthshire.
John Donald Macrae
8th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders
28th July 1918, aged 20.
Plot I. D. 3.
Son of Major J. N. Macrae, D.S.O. (Seaforth Highlanders), of Queen Victoria School, Dunblane, Perthshire.
