War Memorial.

Although Vlamertinghe (now Vlamertinge) was just within range of the German artillery for the greater part of the First World War, units of Allied heavy artillery and field ambulances occasionally stationed their headquarters there. The Hop Store Cemetery, opened in May 1915, was on the safer side of the village but it remained a small cemetery because of its position between a hedge and the premises of the hop store itself. The site was low and marshy, particularly at the west end, and was drained by the Royal Engineers early in 1917. There are now 251 First World War burials within the cemetery, almost exclusively of 1915 and 1917.

The Pozieres Memorial relates to the period of crisis in March and April 1918 when the Allied Fifth Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former Somme battlefields, and the months that followed before the Advance to Victory, which began on the 8th August 1918. The memorial commemorates over 14,000 casualties of the United Kingdom and 300 of the South African Forces who have no known grave and who died on the Somme from 21st March to 7th August 1918. The Corps and Regiments most largely represented are The Rifle Brigade with over 600 names. The Durham Light Infantry with approximately 600 names. The Machine Gun Corps with over 500, The Manchester regiment with approximately 600 and The Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery with over 400 names.

The Thiepval Memorial, the memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before the 20th March 1918 and have no known grave. Over ninety percent of those commemorated died between July and November 1916. The memorial also serves as an Anglo-French Battle memorial in recognition of the joint nature of the 1916 offensive and a small cemetery containing equal numbers of Commonwealth and French graves lies at the foot of the memorial.

The Thiepval Memorial, the memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before the 20th March 1918 and have no known grave. Over ninety percent of those commemorated died between July and November 1916. The memorial also serves as an Anglo-French Battle memorial in recognition of the joint nature of the 1916 offensive and a small cemetery containing equal numbers of Commonwealth and French graves lies at the foot of the memorial.

The Cambrai Memorial commemorates more than 7,000 servicemen of the United Kingdom and South Africa who died in the Battle of Cambrai in November and December 1917 and whose graves are not known. The memorial stands on a terrace at one end of Louverval Military Cemetery. The chateau at Louverval was taken by the 56th Australian Infantry Battalion at dawn on the 2nd April 1917. The hamlet stayed in Allied hands until the 51st (Highland) Division was driven from it on 21st March 1918 during the great German advance, however it was retaken in September 1918.

The area around Duisans was occupied by Commonwealth forces from March 1916, but it was not until February 1917 that the site of this cemetery was selected for the 8th Casualty Clearing Station. The first burials took place in March 1917 and from the beginning of April 1917 the cemetery grew very quickly, with burials being made from the 8th Casualty Clearing Station (until April 1918), the 19th (until March 1918) and the 41st (until July 1917). Most of the graves relate to the Battles of Arras in 1917, and the trench warfare that followed. From May to August 1918 the cemetery was used by divisions and smaller fighting units for burials from the front line. There are now 3,205 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated at Duisans British Cemetery. There are also 88 German war graves.

In the spring of 1917, V Corps cleared some battlefields from around the Leipzig Salient, and made, among others, the cemeteries then known as Lonsdale No 1 and No 2. Lonsdale Cemetery No 1 (the present Lonsdale Cemetery) contained originally 96 graves (now Plot 1), the great majority of which were those of officers and men of the 1st Dorset's and the 11th Borders. It was enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of graves (almost all of 1916) from the surrounding battlefields. There are now 1,542 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18 war.

During the First World War, the village of Lijssenthoek was situated on the main communication line between the Allied military bases in the rear and the Ypres battlefields. Close the front, but out of the extreme range of most German field artillery, it became a natural place to establish casualty clearing stations. The cemetery was first used by the French 15th Hospital D`Evacuation and in June 1915, it began to be used by casualty clearing stations from the commonwealth forces. From April 1918 the casualty clearing stations fell back before the German advance and field ambulances (including a French ambulance) took their place. The cemetery contains 9,901 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, a few of which were brought in from the battlefields after the Armistice, and 883 war graves of other nationalities, mostly French and German.

In the South West quarter of the Communal Cemetery are the graves of soldiers buried by their comrades in the latter half of October and the beginning of November 1918. There are now over 40 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site.