At the crossroads on the Contalmaison-Longueval Road (D20), turn right at Crucifix Corner.  The battle damaged Calvary that still stands here today is one of the few remaining signs of 1916.  It was hear here that units of the 2nd Indian Cavalry Division waited to advance towards High Wood on 14 July.  Driving east towards Longueval, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery is on the right after about 1 km.

Caterpillar Valley Cemetery is the second largest cemetery on the Somme.  Established by the 38th Division in August 1918, it was extensively enlarged after the 1918 Armistice by bringing in graves from the battlefield and other smaller cemeteries.  Today it contains more than 5,500 graves and special memorials.  3,795 of these commemorate unknown soldiers.

The Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial recording the names of over 1,200 men from New Zealand who died on the Somme in 1916 but who have no known grave forms the eastern wall of the cemetery.  From the front of the cemetery, looking north-east, the main New Zealand Memorial can be seen between High Wood and Flers.  In the fields around this point over 1,500 battlefield graves were found after the war.

From the back of the cemetery there is a clear view south to the church spire of Montauban and, looking left, first Bernafay, then Trônes Wood, where Kenneth Macardle was killed on 9 July.  The ground between the present cemetery and Montauban was captured on 14 July and it was close to here that Robert Smylie died early on that morning.  Alan Lloyd was also mortally wounded in the early hours of 4 August only 100m to the right of the cemetery wall while trying to re-establish communications with his battery.