Holnon village and wood were the scene of heavy fighting between the 6th Division and the Germans between the 14-19 September 1918. Chapelle British Cemetery, named from a wayside shrine, was made after the Armistice, by the concentration of graves of 1917-18 from the battlefields west of St. Quentin and from two cemeteries there. There are now more than 600 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site.