Historical Information (Source: CWGC)

The cemetery was begun in the middle of April 1918, when the German front line came within 3.2 kilometres of the village. It was made by fighting units and by the burial officers of the XIII Corps and the 4th Division, and used until September. After the Armistice graves were brought into Row H from the battlefields east of Gonnehem.

Gonnehem British Cemetery contains 200 First World War burials. The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.