The area remained in Allied hands until March 1918, when the Germans captured Mametz during the Spring Offensive.

[2] By the end of the war, the Dantzig Alley British Cemetery held 183 graves; most contained men who had been killed in the early stages of the Battle of the Somme but a few were from the fighting in the area in 1918.

[3] The cemetery, designed by the English architect Herbert Baker, is located just to the east of Mametz on the D64 Road to Montauban.

[5] The entrance is at the southwest corner with a Stone of Remembrance just to the east, centrally arranged to the width of the cemetery.

[3] There are also two memorials to soldiers of the Royal Welch Fusiliers; one for those who lost their lives on the Somme over the period 1916 to 1918 and the other to those killed in the fighting in Mametz Wood in July 1916.