The Cemetery was opened at the beginning of July, 1917, in the period between the Battle of Messines and the Battles of Ypres. It lay among the camps in the flat and well-watered country North of the Poperinghe-Vlamertinghe road. It was used by Infantry units, Artillery and Field Ambulances until September, 1918.
There are now over 450, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. In Plot I, Row H, are buried 14 men of the 9th Lancashire Fusiliers who were killed in the early morning of the 4th September, 1917, in a German air raid over "Dirty Bucket Camp." The Cemetery covers an area of 1,427 square metres and is enclosed by a low wall.
Burials (Commonwealth War Graves Commission):
- United Kingdom: 440
- Canada: 5
- Australia: 2
- New Zealand: 5
- South Africa: 1
- Other Commonwealth: 14
- Total Commonwealth: 467
- Other Nationalities: 3