Personalities buried there include: The idea of bringing together the remains of British officers that had been killed during the Waterloo Campaign of 1815, was first suggested in 1861.

The resulting sculpture by Jacques de Lalaing is a large edifice of bronze figures on a plinth of rusticated stone blocks.

It depicts Britannia with lowered helmet and trident, surrounded by discarded British weapons, uniforms and equipment.

[1] The exception, and the only Non-Commissioned Officer, is Sergeant-Major Edward Cotton (7th Hussars), who survived the battle to become a guide for tourists to the battlefield and was buried at Hougomont after his death in 1849.

[3] This Field of Honour, located within the cemetery, was created to inter Belgian airmen who died in World War II.