They have a small corner of their own, and I photographed the whole plot. While you're in town visiting Brookwood Cemetery, you can discover everything there is to see and do within a couple miles of the area.
But that’s another trip for another day. The weather has been reasonably good so I decided that this was my next destination for the 14th of June.I hit the trains early and the first snag was the flooded subway at Brookwood Station.
In the article it is stated that the American Military Cemetery is located next to the Military Cemetery in Brookwood. I was drawn to a number of separate plots, all dedicated to various nationalities servicemen/women.
although only one station survives. The Necropolis Church was built to cater to all denominations.
If you found this website useful please consider making a donation to help cover the costs of continuing research and maintaining and further development of this educational resource. Not only were there no warning signs, but the water just kept on coming. Visiting Brookwood 14/06/2014 JA. This information is not encyclopedic. I was a bit scared. It too is an awe inspiring place, with 468 Military Burials, and an additional 563 missing listed in the chapel walls. The 4.5 acre Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial in England lies to the west of the large civilian cemetery built by the London Necropolis Co. and contains the graves of 468 of our military dead. Or do it all from Woking. The cemetery is also home to the Brookwood American Cemetery, with its beautiful chapel and well manicured lawns. Visiting. However, on my return from South Africa, the train from Woking went past Brookwood Station!
Brookwood was in the bag.When I was in London I discovered Brookwood, or should I say, I read about it in my trusty London cemetery guide.
I do know one thing though, even if I knew my Morris relatives were buried here, there is almost no chance of actually finding them without a guide or exact co-ordinates.I really just headed off randomly, because there was no real specific purpose in my being here. For all the information on visiting the Brookwood American Cemetery or the Cambridge American Cemetery, go to www.abmc.gov, or contact the cemetery you're visiting using the below details: Brookwood American Cemetery Tel: +44 (0)1483 473 237. Ideally I wanted to head down to where the office was, or even the chapels, but I was no longer in the mood and decided to start heading in the direction of the station.
When the cemetery is open to the public, a staff member is on duty in the visitor building to answer questions and escort relatives to grave and memorial sites. For some odd reason I was under the impression that it was East of London, so never really made any concerted attempt to find the place. who died during the Second World War. My destination was through that water, so I had to “roll up me troosers and head across t’ bay”.The station opens up right into the Cemetery. The interior of the chapel is of tan-hued stone. The easiest way is to catch the train to Basingstoke and from there a local to Brookwood. Images recreated 17/04/2016 It too is an awe inspiring place, with 468 Military Burials, and an additional 563 missing listed in the chapel walls. As you can see there are many aspects to this cemetery, and I know I never got to see them all.The Monument to the Missing is particularly poignant, commemorating 3438 men and women of the Commonwealth land forces.
I took a random direction and walked as close to the edge of the cem as I could get. I must return here another day, there is much to find, but I want to put in an enquiry to see whether I have family in the cemetery. Believe it or not, I actually had some sort of time table based on available trains to and from Brookwood. and eventually, I was considering that just maybe I was not getting to where I should be, fortunately I bumped into a fellow explorer who set me on the right path and shortly afterwards I hit Brookwood Cemetery proper. You'll want to browse the exhibits at Royal Logistic Corps Museum and The Lightbox. I believe that photography in the cemetery is not allowed without a permit, but hopefully this is not true in military cemetery.The map of Brookwood Military Cem I got from a booklet that I found at the one office. Automobiles may drive through the commonwealth or civilian cemeteries to the American cemetery.
It was quite a sobering experience to see this mix of nations that all came together with common purpose.
Sadly the chapel was closed so I was not able to get any pics of the interior.This is the first American Military Cemetery that I have seen, and it is a beautiful Place of Remembrance.Returning to the CWGC plot I finally found my countrymen who lost their lives in the Great War. Regular trains depart from Waterloo Station to Brookwood, near the cemetery. Brookwood has two Crosses of Sacrifice and two Stones of Remembrance, and the former is not the smaller version that I see in some of the cems.The big problem facing me now was, How do I get out of here and into the cemetery?I wasted quite a bit of time trying to work out when the cemetery was. That was my first visit to ‘meet the parents’ and I was in the middle of a 500-acre cemetery. The first time before I met my future parents-in-law in a chilly evening about 15 years ago, I walked through a large cemetery with my then boyfriend. The post-WW2 Czechoslovak cemetery at Brookwood today.
(Avalon is 430 Acres and has over 300 000 people buried in it). There is almost an uncompleted look about it. Created 14 June 2014. Ugh. The cemetery is also home to the Brookwood American Cemetery, with its beautiful chapel and well manicured lawns.
I am sorry I never spent more time here, but the weather was varying between grim and gray and I did not know how much time I really had. The 4.5 acre Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial in England lies to the west of the large civilian cemetery built by the London Necropolis Co. and contains the graves of 468 of our military dead.