PUISIEUX (or Puisieux-au-Mont) is a commune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, containing the villages of Puisieux and Serre. The road from Mailly-Maillet to Serre and Puisieux, in June, 1916, entered No Man's Land about 1,214 metres South-West of Serre, and the 31st and 4th Divisions attacked North and South of this road on the 1st July, 1916. Parties of the 31st Division reached Serre; but the attack failed, and the 3rd and 31 st Divisions attacked again, without success, on the 11th November. On the 24th February, 1917, the Germans evacuated Serre, and on the following morning the 22nd Manchester's entered it.

In the spring of 1917, the battlefields of the Ancre were cleared by the V Corps and a number of cemeteries made, three of which are now named from the Serre Road.

On the 25th March, 1918, Serre was evacuated by the British, and the cemeteries fell into enemy hands; but on the following 14th August it was in turn evacuated by tile Germans.

The village of Serre has been " adopted," with Bapaume and Puisieux, by the City of Sheffield.

SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No. 3 is in the fields 273 metres North-East of No. I, but a new road (the Chemin des Cimetieres) will lead to it.

The cemetery was made by the V Corps in the spring of 1917. It contains graves of 84 soldiers from the United Kingdom (mainly of the 31 st Division) who fell in July and November, 1916, and of whom 49 are unidentified; special memorials are erected to four men who are known or believed to be buried among them. It covers an area of 294 square metres. It is enclosed by a rubble wall. It commands extensive views on all sides but the East.

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