​​The cemetery contains 700 burials in total and is cared for and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. All of those at rest in the cemetery are casualties of the Second World War. Their date of death ranges from 1940 to1945.

​There are 581 known Canadian burials within the cemetery. This also includes six Czech and 19 Polish men.

​One American man, Warrant Officer Robert Cumming, is also buried within the cemetery. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and came across to the UK. He was an air gunner in a Lancaster Bomber aircraft of No.617 ‘Dambusters’ Squadron. . This aircraft was originally used in Operation Chastise, the attack on the dams in Germany, although Cummings was not part of that raid. He was killed on 11 December 1943 when the Lancaster crashed in the Somme region of France whilst supporting Special Operations Executive secret operations. He is buried in Plot 8, Row G, Grave 9.

​There are 14 men buried here who were killed on 19 August 1942. This was during the costly ‘Operation Jubilee’ in Dieppe where a heavy loss was suffered by the Canadian forces.

​Three D-Day casualties are buried within the cemetery, killed on 6 June 1944. They served in the British 6th Airborne Division to which the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was attached.

​The most senior rank buried in the cemetery is that of Wing Commander Charles Palmer DFC, No.405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force. He died on 26 September 1944 whilst on a bombing operation to destroy the formidable German coastal defences at Cap Gris-Nez,north of Boulogne and west of Calais. The Canadian Army were closing in on the ground and the air force was tasked to weaken the German defences. His Lancaster Bomber crash landed on the site with six of the crew killed and three surviving. He is buried in a collective grave with his fellow Canadian crew in Plot 5, Row C, Grave 9.