QUEENS CEMETERY, PUISIEUX
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.10563, Longitude: 2.65811
Roll of Honour
Listed by surname
© Werner Van Caneghem
Location Information
Puisieux is a village 15 kilometres north of Albert and 26 kilometres south of Arras.
The easiest way to reach the cemetery is to follow the D919 from Arras (sometimes indicated as N319), through the villages of Ayette, Bucquoy and Puisieux. Continue along this road, past the tiny village of Serre-les-Puisieux, until you come to a large farm surrounded by tall poplar trees and adjacent to the large Serre Road Cemetery No.1. On your right you will see a set of CWGC direction signs indicating the way to a group of small cemeteries and the Sheffield Memorial Park. Queens Cemetery Puisieux is the second cemetery along the dirt track. It is situated in open fields facing the memorial park.
Visiting Information
The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.
Historical Information
The village of Puisieux was taken by Commonwealth forces on the 28 February 1917, lost on the 26 March 1918 and recovered on the following 21 August.
In the spring of 1917, the battlefields of the Somme and Ancre were cleared by V Corps and a number of new cemeteries were made. Queens Cemetery (originally known as Queens V Corps Cemetery No 4) is on the old front line of July 1916, south of Mark Copse, one of four small plantations that were on or close behind the line between Serre and Hebuterne. The graves are of casualties of the 31st, 3rd and 19th Divisions who died in July and November 1916, and February 1917.
There are now 311 First World War burials in the cemetery, 131 of them unidentified.
Total Burials: 311.
Identified Burials: United Kingdom 181.
Unidentified Burials: 131.
The cemetery was designed by Noel Ackroyd Rew
Puisieux is a village 15 kilometres north of Albert and 26 kilometres south of Arras.
The easiest way to reach the cemetery is to follow the D919 from Arras (sometimes indicated as N319), through the villages of Ayette, Bucquoy and Puisieux. Continue along this road, past the tiny village of Serre-les-Puisieux, until you come to a large farm surrounded by tall poplar trees and adjacent to the large Serre Road Cemetery No.1. On your right you will see a set of CWGC direction signs indicating the way to a group of small cemeteries and the Sheffield Memorial Park. Queens Cemetery Puisieux is the second cemetery along the dirt track. It is situated in open fields facing the memorial park.
Visiting Information
The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.
Historical Information
The village of Puisieux was taken by Commonwealth forces on the 28 February 1917, lost on the 26 March 1918 and recovered on the following 21 August.
In the spring of 1917, the battlefields of the Somme and Ancre were cleared by V Corps and a number of new cemeteries were made. Queens Cemetery (originally known as Queens V Corps Cemetery No 4) is on the old front line of July 1916, south of Mark Copse, one of four small plantations that were on or close behind the line between Serre and Hebuterne. The graves are of casualties of the 31st, 3rd and 19th Divisions who died in July and November 1916, and February 1917.
There are now 311 First World War burials in the cemetery, 131 of them unidentified.
Total Burials: 311.
Identified Burials: United Kingdom 181.
Unidentified Burials: 131.
The cemetery was designed by Noel Ackroyd Rew
Images above © Carl Liversage @carl_liversage
Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels
British troops in a captured German trench ('Old Hun Line') at Serre, March 1917. Serre was occupied by men of the 7th, 9th and 62nd Divisions on 25 February 1917 during operations on the Ancre, the preliminary stages of the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line. © IWM (Q 1788)
Group of British soldiers in the ruins of Serre, abandoned just before the German retreat, March 1917. © IWM (Q 5804)
A working party of 2nd Battalion, the Manchester Regiment, part of 32nd Division, moving up to the trenches near Serre, January 1917. © IWM (Q 1789)
A panoramic view of ruins of the Sugar Refinery, near Serre, March 1917, following operations on the Ancre. © IWM (Q 1815)
Images in this gallery © Werner Van Caneghem
Burials by Regiment/Unit
East Lancashire Regiment 50
York and Lancaster Regiment 46
Suffolk Regiment 19
Royal Welsh Fusiliers 18
West Yorkshire Regiment 13
East Yorkshire Regiment 13
Gordon Highlanders 12
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 4
Worcestershire Regiment 4
Royal Scots Fusiliers 1
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 1
Identified burials 181
Unidentified burials 130
Total number of burials 311
Compiled by Barry Cuttell
York and Lancaster Regiment 46
Suffolk Regiment 19
Royal Welsh Fusiliers 18
West Yorkshire Regiment 13
East Yorkshire Regiment 13
Gordon Highlanders 12
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 4
Worcestershire Regiment 4
Royal Scots Fusiliers 1
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 1
Identified burials 181
Unidentified burials 130
Total number of burials 311
Compiled by Barry Cuttell
Nearby Cemeteries
Picture © Geerhard Joos
