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Busigny is a village about 10 kilometres
south-west of Le Cateau and 24 kilometres north-east of St. Quentin.
The Communal Cemetery and Extension are a short distance west of the
village on the south side of the road to Bertry.
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Department of the Nord, six miles South-West of Le Cateau. The town was captured by the 30th American
Division and British cavalry on the 9th October 1918, in the Battle
of Cambrai, and in the course of the next two months the 48th, 37th
and 12th Casualty Clearing Stations came successively to Busigny.
The great majority of the men whose names are contained in these
Registers died in one of the three hospitals. Busigny Communal
Cemetery Extension is on the North-West
side of the Communal Cemetery. It was begun in October 1918, and
used until February 1919; and after the Armistice it was enlarged
by the concentration into Plots II-VII of 408 graves from a wide
area between Cambrai and Guise. It now contains the graves of 674
soldiers (and airmen) from the United Kingdom, 24 from Australia,
nine from Canada, and six from South Africa. Sixty-three of these
graves are those of unidentified soldiers. Seventy American graves
from Plot I, two American and two French graves from Plot VIII, and
20 graves of German prisoners have been removed to other cemeteries.
The Extension covers an area of 3,452 square yards. It is enclosed
by a low red brick wall on three sides, and on the fourth by the
high red brick wall of the Communal Cemetery.
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following cemeteries were concentrated into it:-
ANDIGNY-LES-FERMES
BRITISH CEMETERY, VAUX-ANDIGNY, on the North side of the hamlet of
Andigny-les-Fermes. This place was taken by the 46th (North Midland)
Division and the 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment on the 17th
October, 1918, and the cemetery contained the graves of 16 soldiers
of the latter unit.
BUSIGNY CHURCHYARD, from which the grave of one
soldier from the United Kingdom was removed in 1927 (after the plan
on page 8 was engraved) to VIII. B 56.
MARETZ BRITISH CEMETERY, at
the South-Western end of the village of Maretz, made by the 1st/8th
Worcesters on the 11th October, 1918, and containing the graves of
16 soldiers from the United Kingdom.
MOLAIN CHURCHYARD, which
contained the graves of three soldiers from the United Kingdom who
fell in October and November, 1918.
RIQUERVAL BRITISH CEMETERY, BOHAIN- EN-VERMANDOIS, in Riquerval Wood, close to the
Bohain-Regnicourt road. This cemetery contained the graves of 35
soldiers from the United Kingdom (almost all of the 46th Division)
who fell on the 17th October, 1918.
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Silent
Cities WW1 Cemeteries website ŠPaul Reed 2006-2007
Email: info@ww1cemeteries.co.uk
Site Last Updated: 19 August 2008
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