The farm, which had become a German strong point, was taken by the 4th New Zealand Brigade on the 4th October, 1917, in the Battle of Broodseinde. The cemetery was made after the Armistice, by the concentration of isolated graves from the battlefields of Boesinghe, St. Julien, Frezenberg and Passchendaele.
There are now nearly 1,500, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, two-thirds are unidentified and special memorials are erected to one soldier from the United Kingdom and one from Australia, believed to be buried in the cemetery. The cemetery covers an area of 4,525 square metres.
Burials (Commonwealth War Graves Commission):
- United Kingdom: 524
- Canada: 83
- Australia: 305
- New Zealand: 98
- South Africa: 17
- Entirely Unidentified: 412
- Total Commonwealth: 1,439