Queens Cemetery, Bucquoy
- Country France
- Total identified casualties 524 Find these casualties
- Region Pas de Calais
- Identified casualties from First World War
- GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.13333, Longitude: 2.70256
Location information
Bucquoy is situated on the D919, Arras-Amiens road, 15 km south of Arras. Queens Cemetery is located on the western side of the road just south of the village of Bucquoy.
Visiting information
ARRIVAL
The cemetery is located on Rue de la Carte (D919), southwest of the village of Bucquoy. There are CWGC Cemetery Signs both south and north of the Cemetery on the D919.
PARKING
It is possible to park at the side of the main road in a layby, along the front of the cemetery, within 5 metres of the main entrance.
There is space for multiple vehicles to park. The ground is flat and firm with a paved surface.
ACCESS LAYOUT AND MAIN ENTRANCE
There are 3 stone steps from the parking area, leading up to the main entrance where there is a 2-metre wide, double sided (width), black metal, mid-level or thigh height gate. The gate is pushed forwards into the cemetery and opens onto a paved area, leading to a further 2 stone steps up to the grass burial area. Two steps lead up on either side of the paved area to additional paving on either side of the main steps leading into the site.
The Cross of Sacrifice is behind the main entrance close to the front of the cemetery, with the Stone of Remembrance at the rear of the site in line with the entrance and Cross.
There is a shelter building at the rear of the site, behind the Stone of Remembrance. There is paving level with the grass between the shelter and the stone of Remembrance. Two steps lead up into the shelter building.
The Register Box is located inside the main entrance gate in the left-side pillar.
The internal cemetery paths are grass, the ground surface is firm and level.
ALTERNATIVE ACCESS
There is step-free access to the site via a gravel track along the far-left side of the cemetery. At the end of the cemetery wall is a service entrance, 60 metres from the road. A concrete slab, level with the grass inside the cemetery and in front of the track is located in a 2-metre wide opening in the wall. The entrance is in line with the shelter building and Stone of Remembrance at the rear of the site.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The cemetery is permanently open.
History information
Bucquoy was taken by the 7th Division in March, 1917. It was partly lost in April 1918, after a prolonged and gallant defence by the 62nd (West Riding), 37th and 42nd (East Lancashire) Divisions; and it was cleared on the following 21st August.
The cemetery was begun in March 1917, when 23 men of the 2nd Queen's were buried in what is now Plot II, Row A. Thirteen graves of April-August 1918 were added (Plot II, Row B) in September 1918 by the 5th Division Burial Officer. The remainder of the cemetery was made after the Armistice, by the concentration of British and French graves and one American from the battlefields of the Ancre and from small cemeteries in the neighbourhood, including:-
BAILLESCOURT FARM CEMETERY, BEAUCOURT-SUR-ANCRE, was made by V Corps as Cemetery No.16 in 1917 whilst clearing the battlefields. It was in marshy ground between the Farm and the Ancre, and it contained the graves of 64 sailors and soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in the winter of 1916-17, and in August and September 1918. The Farm was taken by the H.A.C. in February 1917.
MIRAUMONT CHURCHYARD, in which nine men of the R.F.A. and an Infantry officer were buried in February and March 1917.
MIRAUMONT GERMAN CEMETERY, in which six soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried in 1915-16.
RIVER TRENCH CEMETERY, PUISIEUX, was made by V Corps in 1917 in clearing the battlefields. It contained the graves of 117 officers and men, almost all of the R.N.D., who fell in February 1917. It was in the open country between Grandcourt and Puisieux.
SWAN TRENCH CEMETERY, PUISIEUX, was created by V Corps as Cemetery No.14, and contained the graves of 27 officers and men of the R.N.D. who fell in February 1917. It was near the Grandcourt-Puisieux road.
TRIANGLE CEMETERY, MIRAUMONT, was 800 metres North-East of Petit-Miraumont village on the road to Pys. This was a German cemetery containing the graves of 181 German soldiers and eight soldiers from the United Kingdom.
There are now over 700, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 200 are unidentified and special memorials record the names of six soldiers from the United Kingdom, buried in Miraumont German Cemetery, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.
The cemetery covers an area of 2,619 square metres.