Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No.1 was made by the V Corps, who cleared the Ancre battlefields in the spring of 1917, as V Corps Cemetery No.9.
Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No.1 contains the graves of 152 soldiers from the United Kingdom (of whom 71 are unknown) and one from Newfoundland.
The majority belonged to the 29th Division including 42 of the 16th (Public Schools) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Almost all were killed on either 1 July or 13 November 1916, whilst a few were killed at the end of the War in June and July 1918.
Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No.1 covers an area of 472 square metres and is enclosed by a stone rubble wall.
Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No.1 is located west of Beaumont-Hamel, 230m south of the Beaumont-Hamel to Auchonvillers road on the north slope of the ridge.
