The hamlet of La Clytte was used as a brigade headquarters and burials in the cemetery, the first of which took place on 1 November 1914, were carried out by infantry, artillery and engineer units. The cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from isolated sites and small burial grounds in the surrounding area.
There are now 1,082 casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 238 of the burials are unidentified and one of the graves, brought in from Leicester Camp Cemetery, is marked with the names of two men between whom the identification rests. Other special memorials commemorate casualties known to have been buried in the cemetery but whose graves could not be located. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Burials (Commonwealth War Graves Commission):
- United Kingdom: 1003
- Canada: 51
- Australia: 12
- New Zealand: 3
- South Africa: 6
- Other Commonwealth: 7
- Total Commonwealth: 1082