Ovillers Military Cemetery was begun before the capture of Ovillers, as a battle cemetery behind a dressing station. Total burials 3,561.
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Lonsdale Cemetery now contains 1,542 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 816 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 22 casualties known or believed to be buried among them.
Following the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line in the spring of 1917, V Corps cleared this battlefield and created a number of cemeteries, of which Ancre British Cemetery (then called Ancre River No.1 British Cemetery, V Corps Cemetery No.26) was one.
Bécourt Military Cemetery contains 713 Commonwealth burials of which 5 are unidentified
and a special memorial is erected to a soldier from the United Kingdom buried among them. Three German graves were removed. Dartmoor Cemetery contains 768 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. The cemetery includes Henry Webber, aged 68 who is thought to be the oldest casualty of the Great War and Father and Son George and Robert Lee who were killed on the same day and buried next to each other.
Norfolk Cemetery near Albert on the Somme in France contains 549 commonwealth burials, of which 223 are unidentified.
Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery was begun in 1917 and used until March 1918, mainly by the 21st and 48th Casualty Clearing Stations. Burials were resumed by Commonwealth troops in September 1918. and the 3rd Canadian and 18th Casualty Clearing Stations buried in it in October and November 1918. Total burials 2,045.
Five Points Cemetery was made by the 53rd Field Ambulance and the 18th Casualty Clearing Station, which were posted near the site. Total burials 101 of which 3 are unidentified.
Euston Road Cemetery at Colincamps on the Somme contains 1,293 burials. The cemetery was started as a front line burial ground during and after the unsuccessful attack on Serre on 1 July 1916.
There are 85, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in Serre Road Cemetery No. 3 who fell in July and November 1916. Of these, 48 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to four men who are known or believed to be buried among them.
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