QUEANT COMMUNAL CEMETERY BRITISH EXTENSION

Queant

Pas de Calais

France

General Directions: Queant is a village 25 kilometres south-east of Arras. The Cemetery is on the western outskirts of the village on the road to Riencourt-les-Cagnicourt.

Queant was close behind the Hindenburg Line, at the South end of a minor defence system known as the Drocourt-Queant Line, and it was not captured by British troops until the 2nd September, 1918. On the North side of the Communal Cemetery was a German Extension of nearly 600 graves (1916-1918), now removed; and the British Extension was made by fighting units, on the far side of the German Extension, in September and October, 1918.

Victoria Cross: Lieutenant Samuel Lewis Honey, VC, DCM, MM, 78th Bn. Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment), died of wounds 30/09/1918, row C. 36.

Casualty Details: UK 161, Canada 112, New Zealand 3, Total Burials: 276

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