Loos (or Loos-en-Gohelle) is a mining village and commune three miles north-west of Lens in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. It has a station on the main railway line from Paris to Arras. Dud Corner Cemetery is about a mile west of the village, on the north-east side of the main Bethune-Lens road.

The name 'Dud Corner' is believed to be due to the large number of unexploded bomb shells found in the neighbourhood after the Armistice. The only burials here during hostilities were those of four officers of the 9th Black Watch and those of four officers of the 9th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, close to Plot III, Row B; the remainder of the burials were brought in later from small cemeteries and isolated positions near Loos and to the north.

The cemetery now covers an area of 6,638 square yards, and contains the graves of 992 soldiers and airmen from the United Kingdom, 28 from Canada and 765 whose unit in our forces could not be ascertained. The unnamed graves number 1,128; but special headstones are erected to 15 soldiers from the United Kingdom who are believed to be buried among them. The great majority of the dead buried here fell in the Battle of Loos, 1915; but some were killed in succeeding years. The regimental memorials brought to the cemetery include those of the 10th Scottish Rifles and the 17th London Regiment, dating from the Battle of Loos, and those of the Royal Montreal Regiment and the Royal Highlanders of Canada, dating from the Battle of Hill 70 in August, 1917.

Special memorials are erected in this cemetery to twelve soldiers of the 2nd Welsh Regiment, killed in action on 12 October, 1915, and buried in Cruxifix Cemetery, Loos whose graves could not be found on concentration.

The cemetery stands on high ground, with wide views of the Loos battlefield. It is bounded by a low rubble wall and a hedge except on the road side, where the War Stone is raised on a grass terrace and flanked by buildings.

The Register records particulars of 1,785 British and Dominion burials.

The land occupied as British War Cemeteries in France is by law of 29 December 1915 the free gift of the French people for the perpetual resting-place of those who are laid here.

Listed below are the names of those Irish soldiers who are known to be buried in the cemetery, and those of soldiers serving with Irish Regiments.