DELSAUX FARM CEMETERY
Beugny
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: This cemetery is near the village of Beugny, 19 kilometres south-west of Cambrai on the N30 Bapaume-Cambrai road. The D20 Haplincourt/Roquiny forms a T junction with the N30 at the Mairie in Beugny. The Cemetery is signposted at this point and is 1 kilometre from the T junction leaving Beugny on the D20 in the direction of Haplincourt. The cemetery is on the left adjacent to the D20.
Delsaux Farm was a point on the German defensive system known as the Beugny-Ytres line, which was reached by Commonwealth troops on 18 March 1917, and passed on the following day. The farm was lost on 23 March 1918 after the gallant defence of Beugny by the 9th Welsh Regiment and their withdrawal, but it was retaken by the 5th Division on 2 September 1918, and on the next day the same division occupied Beugny village. After their advance in March 1918, the Germans made a cemetery (Beugny Military Cemetery No. 18) at the cross-roads, and in it buried 103 Commonwealth and 82 German dead. The site was extended in October - November 1918 by the 29th and 46th Casualty Clearing Stations, which came to Delsaux Farm and made the present cemetery. A little later, the German graves of March 1918 were removed and the 103 Commonwealth dead reburied in Plot I, Row J, Plot II, Row A, and Plot III, Rows B, C and D. The rest of the cemetery was made when graves were later brought in from the battlefield.
Casualty Details: UK 484, Canada 3, Australia 2, New Zealand 6, Total Burials: 495
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