Beaumont-Hamel is a village and commune in the Department of the Somme, on the West side of the Ancre valley, about 5 miles north of Albert. It was attacked again and taken on the 13th November, 1916, by the 51st (Highland) and 63rd (Royal Naval) Divisions.

New Munich Trench British Cemetery is nearer to Beaumont-hamel, and is approached by the same path as Frankfurt Trench British Cemetery. Munich Trench was occupied by the 51st (Highland) Division on 15th November, 1916; New Munich Trench was dig on the previous night by the 2/2nd Highland Field Company and company of the 8th Royal Scots, and lengthened by the 8th Devons in December. The Cemetery was made by V Corps in the spring of 1917, when their units cleared the battlefield, and it was known also as V Corps Cemetery No. 25. It contains the graves of 146 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in November 1916, or January 1917, of whom 93 belonged to the 10/11th, 16th or 17th Highland Light Infantry, and of whom 18 are unidentified.

The Cemetery covers an area of 483 square yards, and is bounded by a low stone wall. It is planted with junipers and cherry trees. It commands wide views except to the east where the ground rises.

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Also buried in this cemetery

Capt. S. F. Johnson. 3rd Bn. attd. 2nd Bn. Border Regt. Killed in action 10th Jan. 1917, aged 29. Severely wound at Festubert in 1915. F.12

2nd Lt. Frank Riddell Jones. 17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry, killed in action 18th Nov. 1916, aged 23. Born in British Guiana. C.10

2nd Lt. Alexander Roxburgh Murray. 4th attd. 17th Bn. Highland Light Infantry. Killed in action 18th Nov. 1916, aged 18. Born at Chungking, West China. E.1

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L/Sgt. H. H. Munro, 22nd Royal Fusiliers was killed by a shell in a field close to this cemetery on the 14th Nov. 1916. He was perhaps better known as the author "Saki". His body was not found.)