[2] The cemetery is named after the bank of spoil left over from the digging of the Ypres-Comines canal,[3] which was strategically important in the relatively flat Flemish countryside.

[4] There are special markers for eleven soldiers (ten British and one Australian) who are known or believed to be buried in the cemetery but whose actual plot was lost or destroyed.

The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens upon enlargement after the war when graves were concentrated from the nearby battlefields.

The cemetery has the graves of two brothers, George and John Keating, who were both killed on 17 February 1915.

[4] The cemetery also has the grave of Private R H Reeves, who was killed on 8 October 1915 by a grenade.