Mesnil Communal Cemetery Extension was begun in July 1916 and used again as a front-line cemetery in 1918.
Mesnil Communal Cemetery Extension was greatly enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of 244 graves from Mesnil Dressing Station Cemetery and from the battlefields of 1916 and 1918 northeast of Mesnil.
Mesnil Communal Cemetery Extension now contains the graves of 252 soldiers from the United Kingdom, seven from New Zealand, five from Canada and 59 whose unit in our forces could not be ascertained. Ninety-three of the graves are unknown.
Ten special memorials record the names of soldiers from the United Kingdom buried in Mesnil Dressing Station Cemetery whose graves could not be found on concentration.
Mesnil Communal Cemetery Extension covers an area of 1,402 square yards and is enclosed by a thorn hedge and a wall. It is planted with thorns and cypresses.
