Historical Information (Source: CWGC)

Montcornet was a German hospital centre in 1918.

The Military Cemetery contains the graves of British soldiers who were originally buried with French, Russian and German dead in a site adjoining the cemetery. The French, Russian and German graves were removed to other cemeteries in 1919 and the British graves were regrouped to form the present cemetery.  Between 1927 and 1938, the bodies of British soldiers recovered from former battlefields east of Soissons were buried here; most of these were unknown and fell in September 1914. Graves from certain smaller cemeteries were also brought here.

There are now over 100, 1914-18 and nearly 20, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 50 from the 1914-18 War are unidentified and four soldiers from the United Kingdom, 3 of whom were buried in the German cemetery at Montcornet and one in Crugny Churchyard, but whose graves are now lost, are commemorated on special memorial headstones.

The cemetery covers an area of 692 square metres.