CAGNICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Cagnicourt
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Cagnicourt is a village 18 kilometres south-east of Arras. The cemetery lies on the D.13, 2 kilometres south of the main Arras-Cambrai road ((D.939) and is near the Communal Cemetery.
Cagnicourt was captured by British troops on the 2nd September, 1918, in the Battle of the Drocourt-Queant Line; and this cemetery was begun after the battle, alongside a German cemetery (now removed). It was used until the middle of October, 1918, when it contained 89 graves, and it was enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields over a wide area round Cagnicourt.
Casualty Details: UK 248, Canada 28, Australia 5, New Zealand 1, Total Burials: 282
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