The cemetery is on the south bank of the Great Fish River. It is approximately 300 meters west of the Fort Brown SAPS Police Post, which is in the historic Fort Brown approximately 30 kms from Grahamstown on the R67 to Fort Beaufort. It is on a farm which is part of the kwaNdwe Private Game Reserve. Enquiries regarding access can be made at the SAPS Post or the farm stall on the opposite side of the R67.

Coordinates at the R67 are 33 deg 07 min 47.4 sec S, 26 deg 37 min 00.7 sec E

Significance
Fort Brown was occupied from 1835 to 1861. The cemetery has 9 identifiable gravestones: 5 civilian and 4 military. An indeterminate number of unmarked graves are discernible only as piles of stones.

The National Monuments Commission obelisk in the Cemetery has the names of 53 soldiers who died in the surrounding area during the Frontier Wars. Their regiments & geographic area from where dead brought to this cemetery are included.

There is a memorial stone for 8 Sappers and Miners and one of their wives who were killed in an ambush on the nearby Koonap Heights in 1852