Historical Information (Source: CWGC)

The village of Courcelles-le-Comte was taken by the 3rd Division on 21 August 1918 and Railway Cutting Cemetery was made after the capture. Buried here are men of the 2nd, 3rd, 37th and 63rd Divisions who died in the area in August 1918. The cemetery contains 108 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 16 of the burials are unidentified but a special memorial commemorates one casualty believed to be buried among them.