Dominion Cemetery

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This is a British Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Cemetery located near the town of Hendecourt-les-Cagnicourt, France.

Dominion Cemetery was made by Canadian units in September, 1918, after the storming by the Canadian Corps of the Drocourt-Queant Line; Imperial Cemetery, to the West of the village, has now been removed to H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust-St. Mein. The grave of one Canadian airman was brought in after the Armistice from an isolated position some kilometres to the East. There are now over 200, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, a small number are unidentified and a special memorial is erected to a Canadian soldier believed to be buried among them. The cemetery covers an area of 818 square metres and is enclosed by a flint and rubble wall.

One burial of note in Dominion Cemetery is that of Serjeant Arthur George Knight, who won the Victoria Cross fighting at the Drocourt-Queant Line on September 2nd 1918 and died of wounds he sustained in that battle the following day.