Queens Cemetery Puisieux (P. de C.)

Details

Queen Cemetery is on the old British front line, South of Mark Copse. It was made by the V Corps (as "The Queens's V Corps Cemetery No. 4) in 1917; and contains the graves of 312 soldiers from the United Kingdom (of whom 131 are unidentified), belonging to the 31st, 3rd and 19th Divisions, who fell in July and November, 1916 and February, 1917.

Number of burials by Unit

East Lancashire Regiment
50
   York and Lancaster Regiment
46
Suffolk Regiment
19
   Royal Welsh Fusiliers
18
West Yorkshire Regiment
13
   East Yorkshire Regiment
13
Gordon Highlanders
12
   King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
4
Worcestershire Regiment
4
   Royal Scots Fusiliers
1
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
1
      
Identified burials
181
      
Unidentified burials
131
      
Total number of burials
312
      

Awards

Captain Douglas Graham Steel MC, 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment K.I.A.13th November 1916, aged 22. B.9.