Rossignol Wood Cemetery, Gommecourt. The cemetery is unusual in that the majority of the graves in the cemetery are of German soldiers. Of seventy German graves in the cemetery, 42 are unknown. April 27, 2002. (02-24-23)
Rossignol Wood Cemetery is located 1.75km south east of Gommecourt on the south side of the road from Gommecourt to Puisieux.
Hebuterne village remained in Allied hands from March 1915, to the Armistice, although during the German advances in the summer of 1918, it was practically on the front line.
Rossignol Wood was taken by the Germans at the end of March 1918 and recovered in the following July.
The cemetery was begun in March 1917, by the 46th Division Burial Officer, about 350 metres to the west of the wood. The German plot was added after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields immediately to the south and south-west.
The cemetery contains 41 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, two of them are unidentified.
Rossignol Wood Cemetery is unusual in that the majority of the graves in the cemetery are of German soldiers. Of seventy German graves in the cemetery, 42 are unknown.
The cemetery was designed by N A Rew.
| Country | Known Graves | Unknown Graves | Total Graves |
| United Kingdom | 34 | - | 34 |
| Germany | 28 | 42 | 70 |
| New Zealand | 7 | - | 7 |
| 70 | 41 | 111 |
