Cimetière du Québec, Cherisy in the Great War

Chérisy a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, south of the straight main road (D939) from Arras to Cambrai.
Chérisy captured by the 18th Division of the BEF on 3 May 1917, but lost the same night. It remained in German hands until retaken by the Canadian Corps on 27 August 1918. Quebec Cemetery made by the burial officers of two battalions, namely the 22nd (French Canadian) and 24th (Victoria Rifles) Battalions Canadian Infantry (both from Quebec). The cemetery closed following the final casualties of 28 September 1918. Quebec Cemetery contains 195 Great War burials, with twelve Known Only to God.
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