Bailiff Wood was secured amidst heavy fighting between the 7th and 10th July, and thereafter this natural defile, a continuation of Sausage Valley, served as a route for troops and supplies going up onto the Pozières ridge. Numerous Royal Artillery batteries and supply dumps were sheltered in this dead ground once it had fallen - there is much evidence of shelling in the wood which can almost certainly be accounted for by accurately registered German counter-battery work. The Pozières Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery stands alongside the Roman Road from Albert to Bapaume. There are 2,758 Commonwealth servicemen buried or commemorated here, of whom 1,380 are unidentified.