The Commonwealth soldiers interred in the cemetery fell in battles in Valkenswaard and the surrounding region (such as at Best, Eersel and Bergeijk).

In early May 1945 the first mention of a permanent British war cemetery on the site is recorded.

Additional fallen soldiers from northern Belgium and southern Holland were removed from their field burial sites and re-interred at Valkenswaard by the graves concentration unit of the British Army.

On the anniversary of the liberation of Valkenswaard on 17 September and on May 4, the Dutch national day of remembrance.

[2] The burial ground was an open field close to a forest between the villages of Valkenswaard and Westerhoven.