The village of Bouchoir passed into German hands on 27 March 1918 but was recovered by the 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade on 9 August 1918. The New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought there from several small Commonwealth cemeteries (read more for a detailled list of these cemeteries) and from the battlefields round Bouchoir and south of the village. Almost all date from March, April or August 1918
The cemetery now contains 763 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 231 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to five casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Another special memorial commemorates an airman buried in Laboissiere German Cemetery whose grave could not be found. The graves in Plots I and II are numbered consecutively from 1 to 144. Those in Plot III are numbered from 1 to 135, and the same system applies to Plot IV. Plots V and VI are numbered by rows in the usual way. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker. Bouchoir new British cemetery host the soldiers fallen and buried at the following former cemeteries:
Bois de Gentelles british cemetery - Gentelles (19 Canadians and 11 British)
Bouchoir british cemetery (47 man from the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles and 3 British)
Bouchoir french national cemetery (4 British and 2 Canadians, French were moved to the "Nécropoles de Montdidier")
Damery british cemetery - Parvillers (Erected in August 1918, 37 British - some from the 1st Dorsets and 5th and 5th Royal Scots and 2 Canadians)
Folies churchyard (6 Canadians and 1 British fallen in august 1918)
Folies communal cemetery extension (23 Canadians and 4 British)
Laboissière german cemetery (2 Officiers from the R.F.C. -ancester of the R.A.F. and 2 german soldiers moved to "Montdidier") et
Parvillers british cemeteries number1, 2 and 3 (From the cemetery number 1, 28 soldiers for the 5th and the 6th Royal Scots fallen the 11th of August, from the number 2 - 60 British soldiers fallen the 11th of August including 54 soldiers des 5th and the 6 Royal Scots and from the number 3 - 20 men - 16 British et 4 Canadians).
The village of Bouchoir passed into German hands on 27 March 1918 but was recovered by the 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade on 9 August 1918. The New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought there from several small Commonwealth cemeteries (read more for a detailled list of these cemeteries) and from the battlefields round Bouchoir and south of the village. Almost all date from March, April or August 1918
