Authuille Military Cemetery was used by Field Ambulances and fighting units from August 1915 to December 1916 and in 1917 and 1918 by Indian Labour Companies.
Authuille Military Cemetery contains 471 graves including those of 440 soldiers from the United Kingdom, 14 from India, three from South Africa, four men of the Indian Labour Corps, and one German prisoner. The graves of two other German soldiers have been removed. There are 38 unknown graves in the cemetery of which 34 are from the UK.
Special memorials are erected to 18 soldiers from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried among them.
Authuille Military Cemetery covers an area of 2,650 square metres.
Amongst the burials in the cemetery is the grave of Captain Richard Henry Vaughan Thompson of the 11th Battalion Royal Fusiliers killed in action at Thiepval on September 26, 1916 aged 32. He was Mentioned in Despatches. He was the only son of Colonel and Mrs E Vaughn Thompson and husband of the Hon. Isabel, youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Shaw.
