| Caterpillar Valley Cemetery | |
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| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | |
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| Used for those deceased | |
| Location | 50°1′34″N 2°47′31″E |
| Designed by | Herbert Baker |
| Total burials | 5,573 |
| Statistics source: Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.Caterpillar Valley Cemetery at Find a Grave | |
Caterpillar Valley Cemetery is a World War I Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Longueval, France.
The cemetery is named after Caterpillar Valley which was the name given by the British army to the long valley which rises eastwards to the high ground at Guillemont. The cemetery was established on 28 August 1918 following an advance by the 38th (Welsh) Division and initially contained 25 graves. The cemetery was greatly expanded after the war after remains for a number of other battlefield cemeteries were concentrated here. Most dead are from autumn 1916; the remainder being August or September 1918. The cemetery contains 214 New Zealand graves from the Battle of the Somme among the over 5000 graves, of which 3800 were unidentified. The cemetery and memorial were both designed by Herbert Baker.