[1] Designed by Herbert Baker, the cemetery is sited on the C1 road to Becourt and is laid out substantially as a rectangle surrounded by a low brick wall.

The entrance is on the southwest corner and centrally located along the east wall is a Cross of Sacrifice.

[1] Many of the soldiers buried in the cemetery were those of the 21st Division who were killed or died of wounds during the opening days of the Battle of the Somme.

[2] A notable interment is Stewart Loudoun-Shand, a soldier in the British Army who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) for his actions on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme.

[3] The ashes of another VC recipient, Brett Cloutman who died in 1971, are interred at the cemetery, in the grave of his brother, an officer of No.