The Railway Cemetery is located on the British support line of July 1916, 200 meters west of the plantation known as "Mark Copse." It was created by the V Corps (as Cemetery No. 3) when the Somme battlefields were cleared in 1917.
It contains 109 graves (44 of which are unidentified): 107 British (soldiers of the 3rd, 19th, and 31st British) who died on 1 July and 13 November 1916, and 5 February 1917, plus two French graves.
The village of Hébuterne remained in Allied hands from March 1915 until the Armistice, although during the German advances of the summer of 1918, it was practically on the front line.