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.