Brookwood Military Cemetery #24
by Shirley Mitchell
Title
Brookwood Military Cemetery #24
Artist
Shirley Mitchell
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
American sector of Brookwood Cemetery.
Brookwood Military Cemetery is the largest CWGC cemetery in the United Kingdom. The cemetery contains the graves of more than 1,600 servicemen of the British Empire in the First World War and over 3,470 from the Second World War. In 1917, an area to the north of the cemetery was set aside as Brookwood Military Cemetery for men and women of Commonwealth forces who died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War. Those buried and commemorated here represent all branches of service and all six of the Commission’s member governments.
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August 28th, 2019
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