Plot I of Gordon Dump Cemetery was made by fighting units after July 10, 1916, and closed in September 1916.  At that time it contained the graves of 95 soldiers, mainly Australian.  It was called variously Gordon (of Gordon's) Dump Cemetery or Sausage Valley Cemetery. 

The remainder of Gordon Dump Cemetery was formed after the Armistice by the incorporation of three existing graves and the concentration of 1,543 from the battlefields immediately surrounding the cemetery.  The great majority of the soldiers thus reburied fell in July 1916. 

Special memorials are erected to 33 soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from Australia thought to be buried among them.  The graves of three French soldiers have been removed to another cemetery.

The wooden memorial of the 10th Lancashire Fusiliers to their officers and men who fell on July 7, 1916 in the capture of Quadrangle Trench was removed to this cemetery.

Gordon Dump Cemetery covers an area of 5,585 square yards and is bounded on two sides by a rubble wall and on two by a curb and a hornbeam hedge.  Maples, cypresses and other trees have been planted.  The cemetery is sheltered by hills except on the southwest side from which Bécourt and Becordel can be seen. 

Gordon Dump Cemetery is situated at the end of a grass lane leading south from the La Boisselle to Contalmaison road.

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