FLESQUIERES HILL BRITISH CEMETERY
Flesquieres
Nord
France
General Directions: Flesquieres is a village at the junction of the D92 and D89 roads, about 5 kilometres south-west of the main road from Cambrai to Bapaume. The Cemetery lies a little east of the village on the south (right) side of the D92 road to Cantaing.
Flesquieres village was attacked by the 51st (Highland) Division, with tanks, on the 20th November, 1917, in the Battle of Cambrai, but held for a time by a German officer with a few men; it was captured on the 21st. It was lost in the later stages of the battle, and retaken on the 27th September, 1918, by the 3rd Division. Flesquieres Hill Cemetery was originally made by the 2nd Division, in 1918, behind a German cemetery ("Flesquieres Soldiers' Cemetery No. 2"); but the German graves were removed after the Armistice to Flesquieres Communal Cemetery German Extension (which in its turn was removed, with 583 graves, in 1924). On the site of the German cemetery Plots III-VIII and in them were reburied 688 British soldiers from the battlefields of Havrincourt, Flesquieres, Marcoing and Masnieres and from a few other burial grounds.
The following were among the burial grounds from which British graves were brought to Flesquieres Hill British Cemetery:- Abancourt Communal Cemetery German Extension (Nord), in which 38 British soldiers and four men of the Chinese Labour Corps were buried in 1917-18. (The four Chinese burials were re-buried in Ayette Indian and Chinese Cemetery). Havrincourt Communal Cemetery, from which four British soldiers were taken to Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension and three to Flesquieres. Haynecourt German Cemetery, on the South side of the village, from which eight British graves were removed to Flesquieres and two to H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust-St. Mein, and 138 German to other cemeteries. Masnieres-Crevecoeur Road Cemetery, Crevecoeur sur-L'Escaut, where 13 New Zealand soldiers and seven of the Devons were buried in October, 1918. Masnieres German Cemetery, South of Masnieres, used by the New Zealand Division for eleven burials in October, 1918. 63rd Division Cemetery, between Marcoing and Villers-Plouich, made by the Royal Naval Division at the end of 1917, and containing 41 graves.
Casualty Details: UK 822, Canada 32, Australia 2, New Zealand 65, Total Burials: 921
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