Blighty Valley Cemetery is almost at the mouth of the valley of the Ancre, a little way up its northern bank.  It is in both Communes of Aveluy and Authuille

Blighty Valley Cemetery was begun early in July 1916, and used until the following November by the troops taking part in the fighting on that front.  At that time it contained the graves of 212 soldiers and comprised the whole of the present Plot I except 21 graves. 

Blighty Valley Cemetery was not used again until after the Armistice, when 784 graves were brought in from the battlefields and small cemeteries to the east.  The majority of the officers and men thus reburied fell on July 1, 1916.

Special memorials are erected to 24 soldiers from the United Kingdom, buried by the Germans in Bécourt German Cemetery in the spring of 1918, whose graves could not be found on exhumation.  The 70th Infantry Brigade erected a wooden memorial in the cemetery to their dead of July 1, 1916.

There is a further memorial ‘To the memory of these five soldiers of the British Empire who died in 1918 as prisoners of war.  They were buried at the time in Bécourt German Cemetery but whose graves are now lost’.

Blighty Valley Cemetery Fact Panel