The village was occupied by British troops on the 14th March, 1917, and in April and May the 3rd, 29th and 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Stations were posted near it. They began the British Cemetery, and continued to use it until March 1918; but on the 25th March, Grevillers was captured by the enemy. A German Cemetery was then made on the East side of the British, continuing the existing layout. On the following 24th August, the New Zealand Division recaptured Grevillers, and in September the 34th, 49th and 56th Casualty Clearing Stations came to the village and resumed the use of the British Cemetery. After the Armistice, 200 graves were brought from the battlefields to the South of the village, and 40 from the German Cemetery; and 927 Germans graves were removed to another cemetery.

The Cemetery now contains the graves of 1,497 sailors, soldiers, Marines and airmen from the United Kingdom; 413 soldiers and airmen from Australia; 153 soldiers from New Zealand, 14 from Canada, two from India, one from South Africa, one from the British West Indies Regiment and four whose unit is not known; one man of the British Red Cross Society; and 18 French civilians. The unnamed graves number 189, and special memorials are erected to 15 soldiers from Australia and three from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of two soldiers from the United Kingdom buried in Avesnes-Les-Bapaume German Cemetery whose graves could not be found.

Certain graves in the cemetery, identified as groups but not individually, are marked by headstones bearing the additional words ; "Buried near this spot."

The New Zealand Memorial in this cemetery will form the subject of a separate register.

Cemeteries concentrated into Grevillers Military Cemetery

Avesnes-Les-Bapaume German Cemetery, "near the British huts", contained the graves of two soldiers from the United Kingdom who died in April, 1918.

Bayonet Trench Cemetery, Gueudecourt, contained the graves of 19 soldiers of the 1st Australian Infantry Battalion who fell on the 5th November, 1916, and who are now buried in Grevillers Military Cemetery.

Number of burials by Unit

Nicholson, John A. Lt 48th Bty 36th Brigade Royal Field Artillery. Died 5th October 1918. Age 20. XV D