Mill Road Cemetery is located in fields near the 36th (Ulster) Division Memorial. 

Mill Road Cemetery was started in 1917 when the area was cleared after the fighting during the summer and autumn of 1916.  The cemetery was expanded after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from other cemeteries in the area.

Connaught Cemetery near Thiepval was begun during the early autumn of 1916 and at the Armistice it contained 228 burials.

Connaught Cemetery was then very greatly increased when graves were brought in from battlefields in the immediate area and the following small cemeteries:

The 36th (Ulster) Division Memorial is set in a small park on a site where the Division won glory in their gallant attempt to capture the Schwaben Redoubt and take Thiepval. 

The completed Ulster Memorial Tower was unveiled by Field-Marshall Sir Henry Wilson on Saturday November 19, 1921.