Pathway through a farmers field to Queens Cemetery, opposite Sheffield Memorial Park, near Puisieux, France.

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Pathway through a farmers field to Queens Cemetery, opposite Sheffield Memorial Park, near Puisieux, France. Puisieux is a village 15 kilometres north of Albert and 26 kilometres south of Arras. It is situated in open fields facing the Sheffield Memorial Park. Queens Cemetery (originally known as Queens V Corps Cemetery No 4) is on the old front line of July 1916, south of Mark Copse, one of four small plantations that were on or close behind the line between Serre and Hebuterne. The graves are of casualties of the 31st, 3rd and 19th Divisions who died in July and November 1916, and February 1917. There are now 311 First World War burials in the cemetery, 131 of them unidentified. The cemetery was designed by N A Rew. (Source: ) This cemetery is one of three immediately in front of the British line on 1st July 1916.

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Size: 3624px × 2415px
Location: Queens Cemetery, nr Sheffiled Memorial Park, Puisieux, France
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
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