At High Wood, drive northwest for 500m and then turn left towards Bazentin (known as Bazentin-le-Petit in 1916).  After crossing over the top of the ridge, with the spire of Martinpuich visible to the north, turn left into Bazentin and, in the centre of the village, take a small track to the left signed to Bazentin-le-Petit Communal Cemetery.

The two Bazentin villages were captured as part of the dawn assault made on 14 July.  Despite its name, Bazentin-le-Grand is the smaller of the two and today is little more than a farm south of the D20 near Crucifix Corner.  The fighting for the larger Bazentin-le-Petit rumbled on for several days after the main assault until the German line was finally driven northeast up the ridge towards Martinpuich and High Wood.

On 18 July Robert Graves entered the line at Bazentin-le-Petit.  Two days later, his battalion was in reserve for an attack on High Wood.  Withdrawing under heavy shellfire, he was badly hit inside the Communal Cemetery, a piece of marble headstone becoming embedded in his eyebrow. He was sent to a dressing station near Mametz Wood where he was left for dead.  Eventually he was evacuated to hospital first in Rouen and then Britain.

Edward Colle prepared for his first attack with his tank near Flatiron Copse on 14 September.  That evening, at 15-yards-per minute, he drove north to Bazentin-le-Petit Communal Cemetery.  It was from there that he moved forward into the attack on the morning of 15 September, directing his tank north across the ridge towards Martinpich.  He returned to the cemetery later that afternoon and signalled from there that he needed help to move his tank.