A walled avenue leads from Polygon Wood Cemetery, past the War Cross, to the Buttes New British Cemetery. This burial ground was made after the Armistice, by the concentration of a large number of graves (almost all of 1917, but in a few instances of 1914, 1916 and 1918) from the Battlefields of Zonnebeke. There are 2103, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 1675 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 23 New Zealand soldiers and 12 from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them. The cemetery contains the Memorial to those officers and men of New Zealand who fell in this area, September, 1917-May, 1918, and whose graves are not known. The Cemetery covers an area of 15,145 square metres and is enclosed by a low rubble wall. Within this cemetery will also be found the Buttes New British Cemetery (New Zealand) Memorial to the Missing.
Burials (Commonwealth War Graves Commission):
- United Kingdom: 1295
- Canada: 50
- Australia: 564
- New Zealand: 162
- Entirely Unidentified: 30
- Total Commonwealth: 2101