Awoingt village was captured on 9.10 October 1918 and the cemetery was begun soon afterwards. By 28 October, the 38th, 45th and 59th Casualty Clearing Stations were posted in the neighbourhood, and the great majority of the burials were made from those hospitals, but 16 graves were brought in after the Armistice from the country immediately surrounding the village. The cemetery contains 653 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. It also contains 63 war graves of other nationalities, most of them German.