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QUARRY CEMETERY

Marquion
​​​
Pas De Calais

​France


GPS Coordinates - Latitude: 50.20383, Longitude: 3.09531

Quarry Cemetery, Marquion
Picture © Werner Van Caneghem
Location Information

Marquion is a village on the main Arras to Cambrai road (D939), about 25 kilometres from Arras.  
From Marquion, follow the D15 road towards Sain les Marquion, but after only 150 metres follow the minor road that leads towards Boulon to the left (Chemin de Bourlon). The cemetery is situated about 150 metres down this road.


Visiting Information

Wheelchair access with some difficulty.


Historical Information

Marquion was captured by the 1st Canadian and 11th Division on 27 September 1918. Quarry Cemetery (called also the Chalk Pit Cemetery) was made by fighting units after the battle and used during the following month. One grave was brought in from Marquion German Cemetery after the Armistice.

Quarry Cemetery contains 68 burials of the First World War.

Casualty Details: UK 23, Canada 45, Total Burials: 68.

The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and
George Hartley Goldsmith
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Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem

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Quarry Cemetery, Marquion - Hedlund
Original grave marker of Martin E. Hedlund, 7th Bn. Canadian Infantry at Quarry Cemetery, Marquion. His grave reference is now A. 13.
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Aerial photograph of Marquion, near Arras. Sheet 51b, W3, 4, 5. © IWM Q 58650
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602479 Private
Duncan Cameron Campbell
15th Bn. Canadian Infantry
27th September 1918, aged 19.
Row A. 2.

Son of John and Katherine Campbell, of Ontario.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Till He Cometh."

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800246 Private
Alexander Donaldson
​15th Bn. Canadian Infantry
27th September 1918, aged 40.
Row B. 10.


Son of Sam Donaldson, of Edinburgh, Scotland; husband of Mary Donaldson, of 581, Annette St., West Toronto, Canada.

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427395 Sergeant
Thomas Graham, M. M.
13th Bn. Canadian Infantry
27th September 1918, aged 34.
Row B. 5.

Son of Margaret Graham, of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, and the late Thomas Graham. Native of Great Salkeld, Cumberland, England. Enlisted 1915.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Father In Thy Gracious Keeping Leave We Now Thy Servant Sleeping."

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2020282 Private
Robert McKay
7th Bn. Canadian Infantry
27th September 1918​.
​Row A. 12.

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2137524 Private
Gordon Mucklow
​No. 3 Coy. 7th Bn. Canadian Infantry
27th September 1918, aged 26.
Row C. 6.

Son of Edward and Mabel M. Mucklow, of Wood Hill, Bury, Lancs., England.

His headstone bears the inscription; "In Loving Memory Second Son Of Edward Mucklow Of Bury."

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800233 Private
Robert Scouse
​15th Bn. Canadian Infantry
27th September 1918.
Row B. 11.

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Captain 
Gordon Stevenson Winnifrith, M. C.
​15th Bn. Canadian Infantry
27th September 1918, aged 27.
Row D. 9.


Son of Harold and Eliza Winnifrith, of 77, Westminster Avenue, Toronto.

His headstone bears the inscription; "Dileas Gu Brath."​ (The Battalion motto).

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862169 Corporal
Harold Norman Wright
​7th Bn. Canadian Infantry
27th September 1918, aged 33.
Row B. 12.

Son of Robert and Mary Wright, of 14, Sparkhall Avenue, Toronto; husband of Kathleen Wright, of 21, Maples Bain Avenue, Toronto.

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British transport in the main street of Marquion, 28 September 1918. © IWM (Q 78758)
Quarry Cemetery, Marquion
28th March 1924; Plan, sections and elevations showing various details relating to the Cross of Sacrifice at Quarry Cemetery, Marquion. ©CWGC
Quarry Cemetery, Marquion
Post 1939 - ©CWGC
Quarry Cemetery, Marquion
June 1949 - ©CWGC

Nearby Cemeteries

Sains-les-Marquion British Cemetery
Quarry Wood Cemetery
Bourlon Wood Cemetery


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