The Wood was lost at the end of April, 1918, and retaken by the 38th (Welsh) Division on the following 28th August.

The Cemetery is immediately South of the Wood, on the South side of the road from Longueval to Ginchy. It was made after the Armistice, by the concentration of a few small cemeteries and of isolated graves (almost all of July, August and September, 1916) from the battlefields. Fifteen French graves have been removed to another cemetery.

Of the cemeteries from which British graves were concentrated into Delville Wood Cemetery:

Angle Wood Cemetery, Ginchy, was a group of graves in an "excavated shell-hole" in Angle Wood, to the North-West of Maurepas; and in them were buried 27 soldiers from the United Kingdom (mainly of the London Regiment) who fell in August and September, 1916.

Battery Copse Cemetery, Curlu (called by the French Bois-Vieux No.2 Mixed Cemetery), was between Curlu and Maurepas. It contained, in addition to French graves, those of 17 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in 1916-1918.

Bazentin-Le-Petite German Cemetery was at the South -East end of the village; it contained the graves of 2,178 German soldiers, one French, and five (who fell in March and April, 1918) from the United Kingdom.

Courcellete Communal Cemetery German Extension contained the graves of three soldiers from the United Kingdom, one from Canada, and 1,040 German.

Ferme-Rouge French Military Cemetery, Curlu (called by the French CBois-Vieux "B" Cemetery), was close to Battery Copse Cemetery. It contained 138 French graves and that of one soldier from the United Kingdom who fell in March, 1917.

Guillemont German Cemetery No.1, at the West end of the village, containing 221 German graves and those of seven soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in May and July, 1918.

Lone Ridge Cemetery, Longueval, between Delville Wood and the centre of the village, contained the graves of 52 soldiers of the 38th (Welsh) Division and the 6th Dragoon Guards who fell at the end of August, 1918.

Maricourt (La Cote) Military Cemetery, on the South -West side of the village, was begun by British troops in 1916 and used by the Germans in 1918; it contained the graves of 45 soldiers and airmen from the United Kingdom and one from Australia, of whom five were reburied at Delville Wood and the rest in Pèronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt.

Martinpuich German Cemetery No.1, at the North-East end of the village, contained the graves of six soldiers and one sailor from the United Kingdom who fell in March, 1918.

Martinpuich German Cemetery No.2, 2,184 metres West of No.1 contained the graves of one soldier from the United Kingdom.

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