QUEANT ROAD CEMETERY
Buissy
Pas de Calais
France
General Directions: Buissy is a village about 2 kilometres south of the main Arras to Cambrai road (D939) and about 25 kilometres from Arras. Queant Road Cemetery is situated on the north side of the D14 road that leads from the village towards Queant, about 3 kilometres from Buissy.
Buissy was reached by the Third Army on 2 September 1918, after the storming of the Drocourt-Queant line, and it was evacuated by the Germans on the following day. Queant Cemetery was made by the 2nd and 57th Casualty Clearing Stations in October and November 1918. It then consisted of 71 graves (now Plot I, Rows A and B) but was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields of 1917-1918 between Arras and Bapaume, and from certain smaller burial grounds in the area.
Victoria Cross: Captain Percy Herbert Cherry, VC, MC, 26th Bn. Australian Infantry, Australian Infantry Force, killed in action 27/03/1917, plot VIII. 3. 10.
Casualty Details: UK 1289, Canada 87, Australia 995, New Zealand 1, Unidentified 5, Total Burials: 2377
4802 Sergeant
John (Jack) James White
22nd Bn. Australian Infantry,
A. I. F.
03/05/1917, aged 29.
Son of Arabella Beddoe White and the late Charles White of "Durban", Foster St., Aspendale, Victoria. Born at Baringhup, Victoria.
Plot VIII. B. 28A
Listed as missing, presumed killed in action, his name is engraved on the wall at Villers-Bretonneux. In 1994, some 77 years after his death, his remains were found quite close to the “Digger” Memorial at Bullecourt.. A re internment ceremony with full military honours saw him finally laid to rest at Queant Road on October 11th, 1995. The photograph shows Jack with his wife Lillian Isabella Mildenhall and children, Colin (1913-1983) and baby daughter Myrle who was only 10 months old when Jack enlisted in 1916. Myrle was aged 80 when she attended the re internment service in France. I delivered the family eulogy at the service.
Photograph and dedication by Colin John (Jack) White (of Beaconsfield Upper, Victoria) Grandson of John James White.
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