Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, Pas de Calais, France: The Craxford Family Genealogy Magazine

Latitude: 50.19369121919952, Longitude: 3.013172149658203

Notes:
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 2200 graves were brought in from the battlefields of 1917-1918 between Arras and Bapaume, and from the following smaller burial grounds in the area:-

Headstones

Thumb	Description	Status	Location	Name (Died/Buried)
	WG: Bedell, William Born Wilfred (or William) Biddall (the son of George Biddall and Matilda Pollard, he was transported to Canada in 1912 where he became known as Bedell and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Note the wrong spelling of his name	Located	VII C 35	Wilfred Biddall (d. 3 Sep 1918)

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