Stump Road Cemetery contains the graves of 239 soldiers from United Kingdom and 24 from Canada who fell in the period July 1916 to February 1917.  There are 50 unknown graves in the cemetery and many of officers and men of the 18th Division. 

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

Thiepval Wood (known today as Bois d’Authuille) on the upper left and the 36th (Ulster) Division Memorial to its right in a wooded area. 

The Schwaben Redoubt at Thiepval was attacked on July 1 by the 36th (Ulster) Division under Major-General O.S.W. Nugent. 

Initially they managed to advance, but as the day wore on they were beaten back, gradually losing the majority of the ground they had won.  By nightfall they had lost over 9,000 men – of which over 5,500 had been killed.

Kitchener realised early on that the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) was an obvious source of recruits for the New Army, but in view of the situation with the Irish at the time there were a number of political problems. 

The original aim was to get the UVF men to enlist, not as units in their own right, but scattered throughout other units.