Aveluy Wood Cemetery (Lancashire Dump) is situated by the side of the Albert to Hamel road at the northern boundary of Aveluy Wood in the village of Mesnil-Martinsart.

On the 80th Anniversary of the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, a memorial was erected in the village of Authuille to honour the memory of the 15th, 16th and 17th Battalions of the Highland Light Infantry. 

Authuille is 5km north of Albert.  Authuille Military Cemetery is on the south side of the village, between the road to Albert and the River Ancre

Authuille was held by British troops from the summer of 1915 to March 1918, when it was captured in the German Offensive on the Somme.  As a village, it was ruined by shellfire even before that date.

‘Blighty Valley’ was the name given by the Army to the lower part of the deep valley running south westwards through Authuille Wood to join the river between Authuille and Aveluy.  For some time it was an important (though inevitably a dangerous) route.  The upper part of the valley was called ‘Nab Valley’.  Blighty Valley Cemetery is almost at the mouth of the valley, a little way up its northern bank. 

Martinsart British Cemetery is located on the southern edge of Martinsart on the north side of the road to Aveluy.

Mesnil Communal Cemetery Extension is on the road between Mesnil and Martinsart, near the northwest corner of Aveluy Wood.  The cemetery is situated in a valley among cultivated fields. 

Hamel Military Cemetery was begun by fighting units and Field Ambulances in August 1915, and carried on until June 1917.  A few further burials were made in Plot II, Row F after the capture of the village in 1918.

Hamel Military Cemetery was known at times by the names of ‘Brook Street Trench’ and ‘White City’.

Hamel Military Cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of 48 graves from the immediate neighbourhood.

Mill Road Cemetery is located in fields near the 36th (Ulster) Division Memorial. 

Mill Road Cemetery was started in 1917 when the area was cleared after the fighting during the summer and autumn of 1916.  The cemetery was expanded after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from other cemeteries in the area.

Connaught Cemetery near Thiepval was begun during the early autumn of 1916 and at the Armistice it contained 228 burials.

Connaught Cemetery was then very greatly increased when graves were brought in from battlefields in the immediate area and the following small cemeteries:

The Orange Memorial has been erected in recent years on ground adjacent to the 36th (Ulster) Division Memorial at Thiepval.