Queens Cemetery

Cimetière militaire de Bucquoy(62)

- Queens Cemetery, Bucquoy (chemin de Puisieux, lieu-dit le Bourg, superficie : 2662 m2). Cimetière ouvert en mars 1917 alors qu'on y enterra 23 soldats du 2nd Queens. Ce secteur fut repris après de durs combats en avril 1918 et complètement repris quatre mois plus tard. Ce cimetière porte le nom du Queens Régiment (régiment de la reine) .il contient les tombes de 708 soldats britanniques, 28 néo-zélandais et 5 français qui sont tombés dans les engagements des batailles de la vallée de l’Ancre.

Sheffield Memorial Park, Serre, France

This video looks at the British Front line trench location which is today called the Sheffield Memorial Park.

The wooded area here marks the front line of 1st July 1916 when the Northern pal companies went over the top to almost certain death. Less than 100m in front of the line are three British cemeteries, poigniantly marking the spot where hundreds of men died on that fateful day in 1916.

I keep calling the park the 'Sheffield Park Memorial' when in fact it is called the 'Sheffield Memorial Park'...Dooh!

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