Beacon Cemetery sits on a busy main road, but in 1918 the area was significant as the place where the Advance to Victory began on 8 August. Bernard Beaver of Oakham died on that day and his grave lies among the original burials in the middle of the cemetery.  He is in Plot III, row C, grave 22.  The cemetery (named from a brick beacon on the summit of the ridge a little south-east of the village) was made by the 18th Division Burial Officer when the 12th (Eastern), 18th and 58th (London) Divisions attacked from the Ancre to the Somme and the Australian Corps beyond the Somme. At the Armistice, the original burials numbered 109, chiefly from the 12th Division, but it was then greatly increased when graves were brought in from the surrounding battlefields and some smaller burial grounds. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.