The majority of those buried here had fallen in battles between September and November 1944 in the region south and west of the River Meuse and during the fighting for the Scheldt estuary.

[1] The cemetery contains 658 fallen service personnel; 648 are Commonwealth soldiers (seven unidentified[citation needed]) and one Dutch grave (of G.M.

[1] In 1982, an employee of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission was also buried in the cemetery.

[2] The Cross of Sacrifice at the cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

The damage included letters on the gravestones, a swastika in the chapel and graffiti on the Cross of Sacrifice.