Sited opposite the Delville Wood South African Memorial and designed by Sir Herbert Baker, Delville Wood cemetery is located just off the D20 that runs between Longueval and Guillemont (11 km east of Albert), France and contains 5,523 burials of which two-thirds are unknown.

The high proportion of unknown graves probably reflects lengthy period which elapsed before many of the bodies were removed from the battlefield and buried.

Sergeant Albert Gill, of the 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, is buried in the cemetery.

He was killed on 27 July 1916 during the fighting in Delville Wood whilst standing up under fire to direct his troops, an act for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

Three bodies found during the building of the Delville Wood South African Memorial opposite the cemetery were interred in it in 1984. https://www.ww1cemeteries.com/delville-wood-cemetery.html*