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The cemetery was consecrated in 1916 near to the Great war training camps and Prisoner of War camp on Cannock Chase. The landowner Lord Lichfield granted permission for what become a permanent feature on his estate. Seventy nine of the Commonwealth graves are from the New Zealand Rifle Brigade based at Brocton Camp with a smaller number from various regiments. The youngest is Albert Edward Easter Urell, 16 years old, a boy soldier with the Royal Garrison Artillery. A larger number of graves are for German servicemen.

The majority of deaths are in late 1918 and early 1919 during the Spanish Flu epidemic. The small number of British graves can be explained by a policy of allowing bodies to be returned to families for burial.