Quéant Road Cemetery is a

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located between the villages of

Buissy Buissy () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France. Geography A farming village located 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Arras on the D14 road, at the junction with the D19. Population ...

and

Quéant Quéant () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography Quéant is situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D14 and D22 roads. Quéant Mountain is a mountain in Canada named after th ...

in the

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region of France. Situated on the north side of the D14 road, about 3 kilometres from Buissy, it contains 2,377 burials and commemorations of Commonwealth soldiers who died in the era of 1917 and 1918. The first burials were of soldiers who died in the period from September to November 1918. Following the

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the cemetery was enlarged to accommodate over 2,200 burials moved from surrounding battlefields and cemeteries.

Historical Information

was reached by the Third Army on 2 September 1918, after the storming of the Drocourt-Quéant line, and was evacuated by the Germans on the following day. Quéant Road Cemetery was created by the 2nd and 57th Casualty Clearing Stations in October and November 1918. It then consisted of 71 graves (now Plot I, Rows A and B), but was greatly enlarged after the

when 2,200 graves were brought in from the battlefields of 1917–1918 between

Arras Arras ( , ; pcd, Aro; historical nl, Atrecht ) is the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department, which forms part of the regions of France, region of Hauts-de-France; before the regions of France#Reform and mergers of ...

and

Bapaume Bapaume (original Dutch name Batpalmen) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. The inhabitants of this commune are known as ''Bapalmois'' or ''Bapalmoises''. Geography Bapaume is a farmi ...

, and from the following smaller burial grounds in the area: * Baralle Communal Cemetery British Extension, which was made in September 1918, contained the graves of 25 soldiers from the United Kingdom. * Baralle Communal Cemetery German Extension, from which two graves were brought. *

Cagnicourt Cagnicourt () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais ''département'' in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography A farming village located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Arras at the junction of the D13 with the D14E. Population Place ...

Communal Cemetery, contained the grave of one soldier from the United Kingdom who fell in September 1918. *

(6th Jaeger Regiment) German Cemetery, East of the village, contained 137 German graves and one British. *

Noreuil Noreuil () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography Noreuil is situated southeast of Arras, on the D5 road. Population History World War One In 1917 it was the location of fighting dur ...

British Cemeteries No. 1 and No. 2. These were close together, about 400 metres North of Noreuil village. They were made in April–August 1917, and they contained the graves of 50 soldiers from Australia and 16 from the United Kingdom. Some of these were re-buried in H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust-St. Mein. *

German Cemetery No. 1, next to Noreuil Australian Cemetery, contained 78 German graves and ten British. *

Pronville Pronville-en-Artois (; literally "Pronville in Artois"), simply Pronville until 2017, is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography Pronville-en-Artois is situated southeast of Arras, on the D22 ...

German Cemetery "near the Cave", on the Western outskirts of Pronville, contained 17 British graves. *

German Cemetery No. 4, South of Pronville on the road to Beaumetz, contained 83 German and 83 British graves. 52 of the British graves were those of soldiers of the Black Watch. *

Churchyard, contained two British graves. There are now 2,377 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in Quéant Road Cemetery. 1,441 of the burials are unidentified, but there are special memorials to 56 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 26 casualties buried in German cemeteries in the neighbourhood, whose graves could not be found on concentration.

References

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Details for Queant Road Cemetery

WW1 Cemeteries.com – the cemeteries and memorials of the Great War

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Queant Road Cemetery World War I memorials in France Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in France British military memorials and cemeteries Cemeteries in Pas-de-Calais Works of Edwin Lutyens in France